Guatemala has agreed to work with the U.S. military in conducting operations against drug traffickers within its territory.

The European Union’s growing diplomatic engagement with Guatemala is raising broader geopolitical questions about whether Central America could become a new arena of global strategic competition.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo has declared a 30-day state of emergency after a surge in violence linked to coordinated prison riots and gang reprisals in the capital.

The United States Coast Guard has suspended its search for survivors following recent US military strikes on boats in the eastern Pacific, carried out as part of Washington’s ongoing campaign against alleged drug smuggling operations.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck the Mexico–Guatemala border region at 2006 GMT on Friday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

Guatemala’s migration authority, the Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración (IGM), confirmed on Friday that it received its first flight from the United States carrying foreign migrants alongside Guatemalan citizens.

A U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children, including 10 minors aged 10–17 who had already been placed on planes.

Guatemala suspended classes in and around its capital on Wednesday and ordered the closure of some businesses following an earthquake that triggered deadly landslides.