President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused ...

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in ...

I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had ...

Guatemala's president on Wednesday ousted his interior minister and two other officials after 20 members of the Barrio 18 ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security ...

Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo has accepted the resignations of three top security officials. This follows the escape ...

Twenty convicted members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from a maximum-security prison in Guatemala over the weekend, ...

The photo of prison escapee Julio Cristobal Gomez Lic, of the the gang Barrio 18, is shown on a screen offering reward money ...

According to the Salvadoran government, the gangs Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (better known as M S-13) are responsible for ...

Tens of members of the Barrio 18 gang, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration, ...

El Mirador was a Mayan city that thrived nearly 2,000 years ago, now it's hidden by a near-impenetrable rainforest. ABC News’ Bob Woodruff journey to see the city through the eyes of its protectors.

Some 45,000 Guatemalan police officers are on the hunt for fewer than two dozen men. The New York Times reports that ...