Viewfinder: A Raid on Suspected Human Traffickers in Guatemala

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: May 30, 2019

A Guatemalan policeman prepares to take part in an early morning raid during which a suspected human trafficker was taken into custody on May 29th, 2019, in Guatemala City. United States Department of Homeland Security agents accompanied Guatemalan police on the raid, the first since acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan signed an agreement with his Guatemalan counterparts, increasing cooperation on human and drug smuggling. McAleenan is on a four-day trip to Guatemala.
(Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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Migrants carry the flag of Honduras while on a caravan of immigrants en route to the Mexican border on October 18th, 2018, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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Members of a caravan of Central American migrants walk along a highway on their way toward the United States on January 20th, 2019, in Huixtla, Mexico.

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Policemen block an exit in Cologne's main railway station, where a man took a hostage in the early afternoon on October 15th, 2018, at Cologne Central Station in Cologne, Germany.

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A riot policeman throws a sound grenade during clashes against protestors demonstrating against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, on September 23rd, 2018.

Metropolitan Detention Center security staff and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Team patrol the grounds after reports of a bomb threat at the facility on February 4th, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Power has been fully restored to the prison after inmates suffered the past week without heat or access to televisions, computers, or telephones. On Monday morning, the facility received a bomb threat following a weekend of protests against the frigid conditions and just hours after defense lawyers filed a lawsuit over this "humanitarian crisis."

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Security staff patrol the grounds of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after reports of a bomb threat at the facility on February 4th, 2019.

Algerian security forces use a water canon to disperse students taking part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital city of Algiers on April 9th, 2019. Lawmakers named the speaker of the upper house as Algeria's first new president in two decades on Wednesday, after the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika following mass protests.

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Algerian security forces use a water canon to disperse students taking part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on April 9th, 2019.

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