Guatemala Coverage

NC teams up with Mexico, Guatemala officials to get coronavirus safety message out to Latino community

State health and safety officials provide a July 23, 2020, update on the coronavirus outbreak in North Carolina and the state's response to it.

Johnston County man in US illegally facing deportion

WRAL's Aaron Thomas was with a Johnston County man who is struggling with the possibility of being deported. Juan Zelada crossed into the US illegally 15 years ago.

Migrant teen lay for hours in cell before he was found dead

Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez collapsed onto the concrete floor of his Border Patrol holding cell early one morning in May. He lay still, next to a toilet in his sweatshirt and jeans for four hours before his cellmate woke up and found him dead.

Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times

Hania Aguilar's father, Guatemalan resident since 2005, denied visa to attend funeral

The State Department denied a temporary visa to a Guatemalan father trying to attend the funeral Saturday for his teenage daughter, who was kidnapped outside her North Carolina home last month and was later found dead off a rural road, the man's lawyer said Thursday.

Matthew Haag, New York Times