Guatemalan police say they have destroyed about 1,200 acres (500 hectares) of opium poppies along the border with Mexico. National police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says about 250 police officers worked for four days destroying the crops in the mountains of the province of San Marcos ...

Former Guatemalan leader Alfonso Portillo was arrested following a US extradition request related to charges of money-laundering during his 2000-2004 presidency, officials said. Two days after police searched for him at two homes in Guatemala City, Portillo, 58, was tracked down at the northeastern beach resort of Punta de Palma on the Caribbean coast, said Attorney General Velasquez Zarate. Portillo ...

Former Guatemalan leader Alfonso Portillo was arrested Tuesday following a US extradition request related to charges of money-laundering during his 2000-2004 presidency, officials said. Two days after police searched for him at two homes in Guatemala City, Portillo, 58, was tracked down at the northeastern beach resort of Punta de Palma on the Caribbean coast, said Attorney General Velasquez Zarate ...

Alfonso Portillo, the fugitive former president of Guatemala, was charged in the United States on Monday with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo, 58, is accused of "converting the office of the Guatemalan presidency into his personal ATM," U.S. Attorney ...