What a president’s party split means for anti-corruption fight in Guatemala

On a recent July morning, a dozen or so Indigenous people gather around a bonfire by the shore of Guatemala’s largest lake, Izabal. They are holding a ceremony in the Indigenous language Q’eqchi’ before kicking off a community meeting to discuss a legal …

New: That Claim About ICE Deporting an 82-Year-Old Legal Immigrant to Guatemala Just Got Much Weirder

Did the Trump administration arrest and deport an 82-year-old Chilean legal immigrant in poor health to Guatemala? That was the stunning claim that appeared on Friday as several different press outlets repeated a report from The Morning Call, a local …

Guatemala denies Allentown grandfather was deported from the United States

The Guatemalan government on Sunday denied that U.S. authorities deported a Chilean native to the Central American country. The Morning Call reported Luis Leon, 82, of Allentown — a legal permanent resident of the United States who won asylum in 1987 — …

ICE deports 82-year-old Pa. man to Guatemala after he lost his green card

An 82-year-old Pennsylvania man was secretly deported to Guatemala after he attempted to have his lost green card replaced. The Morning Call reported that Luis Leon, of Allentown, went with his wife on June 20 to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …

Central American Donors Forum to take place in Guatemala City

Central America Donors Forum returns to Guatemala for 2025 edition.  The Central America Donors Forum (CADF) is set to return to Guatemala this October, at a pivotal time marked by global uncertainty and rapid transformation. As the Central American region …

BELIZE-BORDER-ICJ to hear Guatemala application

Guatemala denies that Chilean green-card holder was deported from the United States

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemalan government on Sunday denied that U.S. authorities deported a Chilean man to the Central American country. The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported Luis Leon, 82, a legal permanent resident of the United …

Update: Family says Allentown grandfather in Guatemala after ICE arrest. but country says it has no records of him

The granddaughter of Allentown grandfather Luis Leon says he is recovering from pneumonia in a Guatemala hospital, weeks after he was taken in handcuffs from a Philadelphia immigration office and driven two days by bus to a detention center in Minnesota,. …

Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card. Instead, Leon, who immigrated to the U.S. from Chile in 1987, was …

Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in ...

Relatives of 82-year-old Allentown resident Luis Leon are headed to a Guatemalan hospital Saturday in hopes of reuniting with the man they say disappeared without a trace into the American immigration system a month ago — and who, for a time, they thought …