Overview

• The Guatemalan migration authority granted humanitarian permanence to 39 families sheltering in Guailá, Huehuetenango, including 69 children from Frontera Comalapa communities.
• Guatemala organized a multidisciplinary aid effort with the Red Cross, Plan International, PGN, CONAMIGUA and SVET, and said it found no indications of criminal structures among the group.
• Mexican federal authorities, acting on instructions from President Claudia Sheinbaum, are in contact with the families, and consular and migration teams conducted on‑site checks on August 11 and 18–19.
• Chiapas Governor Eduardo Ramírez denies forced displacement and state officials report 50 arrest warrants, four Interpol red‑notice requests and a deployment that includes Army, Navy and National Guard units.
• The Pan American Health Organization called for stronger epidemiological surveillance and vaccination along the southern border due to disease‑reintroduction risks linked to population movements.