Sonia PErez D., Author at Valley News

Electoral workers wait for people to cast their votes during general elections in Chinautla on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Guatemalans are voting for their next president in elections plagued by widespread disillusion and distrust, and as thousands of their compatriots flee poverty and gang violence to seek a new life in the United States. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalans choose president amid exodus to U.S.

by Sonia PErez D. Associated PressJune 16, 2019

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalans voted for a new president Sunday following an electoral process that generated widespread disillusion and distrust, and came as tens of thousands were fleeing poverty and gang violence to seek a new life in the United…

Central American migrants traveling in a caravan to the U.S. border walk hand in hand on the shoulder of a road in Pijijiapan, Mexico, Monday, April 22, 2019. The outpouring of aid that once greeted Central American migrants as they trekked in caravans through southern Mexico has been drying up, so this group is hungrier, advancing slowly or not at all, and hounded by unhelpful local officials. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants

by Sonia PErez D. Associated PressApril 22, 2019

Honduran migrant Domingo Adolfo Chavez sits at a makeshift camp set up in Mapastepec, Chiapas State, Mexico, Saturday, April 20, 2019. Chavez, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, has been in the shelter for almost 15 days waiting for documents authorizing them to cross into Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Frustration grows as support fades

by Sonia PErez D. Associated PressApril 21, 2019

A Guatemalan police officer gives a migrant child some food as the migrants bound for the U.S.-Mexico border wait on a bridge that stretches over the Suchiate River, connecting Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, early Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. The migrants have moved about 30 feet back from the gate that separates them from Mexican police to establish a buffer zone. About 1,000 migrants now remain on the bridge between Guatemala and Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Caravan at Border Shrinks

by Sonia PErez D. Associated Press, and Mark Stevenson Associated PressOctober 20, 2018

A Honduran migrant wearing a U.S. flag motif shirt, holds a sandwich at an improvised shelter in Chiquimula, Guatemala, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to cut aid to Honduras if it doesn't stop the impromptu caravan of migrants, but it remains unclear if governments in the region can summon the political will to physically halt the determined border-crossers. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

President Tells Mexico to Stop Caravan

by Sonia PErez D. Associated PressOctober 18, 2018