The Volcán de Fuego, the most active volcano in Central America, has erupted causing smoke columns high up to 4800 meters; the volcano has a history of constant activity, with its last violent eruption in 2018 resulting in 431 deaths

Denying a new asylum deal was signed with the U.S., Guatemala clarified that only a joint security agreement was inked and no new immigration accords have been established beyond previous arrangements

Guatemala has created a joint task force with the United States to locate and repatriate fugitives with active arrest warrants

Archaeologists have discovered a 2.800-year-old Maya city in Guatemala's Petén jungle, revealing one of the earliest and most significant ceremonial centers of the region, named "Los Abuelos" after ancestral sculptures found onsite