An estimated 50 people remain missing in Guatemala after authorities called off a search for victims of a landslide that killed at least 35 people last week.

At least 33 people in are dead and over 100 people are missing in Guatemala after a mile-wide landslide hit the Central American country. San Cristobal Verapaz Mayor Leopoldo Ical: "The landslide is so big, we don't have much hope of recovering many more bodies."

Listen to NPR's report on the rise of vigilantism and gang violence in Guatemala.

Mexico's other neighbor, Guatemala, is worried drug trafficking violence will spread to its cities.

A disagreement over who won a horse race resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people in Guatemala.

A prison riot between rival gangs in Guatemala has left seven prisoners dead – six of them beheaded.

After four years of hiding, former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo has been extradited from México to face charges of corruption.

Pedro Zapeta, a Guatemalan man who had $49,000 in cash confiscated by federal authorities, has won an appeal to have some of his money returned. In 2005, Zapeta was detained by Florida airport officials for not declaring $59,000 in cash – the legal limit is $10,000 – he planned to take to Guatemala. According to Zapeta's lawyer, the dishwasher should have been fined $5,000, not $49,000.

Guatemalan officials announced they have annulled 15 adoptions to the U.S. due to "irregularities," including fraud and kidnapping. They have reviewed 160 cases out of nearly 2,300 which were suspended earlier this year.

Guatemala has suspended the adoption of over 2,000 children to make sure they are being put up for adoption by their birth parents. Last year, 5,000 children were adopted from Guatemala, the majority by American parents.