{"id":497990,"date":"2026-01-18T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/8-police-officers-dead-and-maximum-alert-strong-riots-shake-guatemala-prisons\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:37:12","slug":"8-police-officers-dead-and-maximum-alert-strong-riots-shake-guatemala-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/8-police-officers-dead-and-maximum-alert-strong-riots-shake-guatemala-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"8 police officers dead and maximum alert: strong riots shake Guatemala prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least eight agents of the National Civil Police of Guatemala died this Sunday, while around\u00a0<strong>11 are injured<\/strong>\u00a0amid the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/582676-reos-amotinados-tomar-rehenes-guatemala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disturbances<\/a>\u00a0that originated the previous day in three prisons in the country, organized by the Barrio 18 gang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prensalibre.com\/guatemala\/sucesos\/en-vivo-tension-en-carceles-por-incendio-en-renovacion-1-y-reporte-de-motines-en-fraijanes-y-zona-18-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local media<\/a>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to reports, following yesterday&#8217;s riots in the prisons <strong>Renovaci\u00f3n 1, Fraijanes 2 and the Preventive for men in zone 18<\/strong>, simultaneous armed attacks against uniformed officers were reported in different parts of the country.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Guatemala rules out negotiating with gang members holding 46 guards in 3 prisons\">http:\/\/Guatemala rules out negotiating with gang members holding 46 guards in 3 prisons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSo far, the authorities have managed to regain control of Renovaci\u00f3n 1, and have neutralized gang member <strong>Aldo Dupie Ochoa Mej\u00eda, alias &#8216;El Lobo&#8217;, leader of Barrio 18<\/strong>, who was identified as the coordinator of the riots. The other prisons remain taken by the inmates.\n\nDavid Custodio Boteo, director general of the National Civil Police, announced a <strong>maximum alert nationwide<\/strong> and ordered the reinforcement of personal security measures and at police headquarters.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of the acts of violence, the Ministry of Education of the country <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MineducGT\/status\/2012951223553388640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a> classes nationwide<\/strong> tomorrow &#8220;as a preventive measure&#8221; and under the recommendation of the security authorities. Likewise, public transport was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amilcarmontejo\/status\/2012941914614514114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a> in a large part of the capital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 CRISIS EN GUATEMALA \ud83d\udea8 \u00a1Situaci\u00f3n cr\u00edtica! \u26a0\ufe0f<br><br>Ola de ataques armados simult\u00e1neos contra la PNC deja un saldo tr\u00e1gico de 7 agentes asesinados. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f <br><br>Tras motines en c\u00e1rceles y la neutralizaci\u00f3n de alias \u201cEl Lobo\u201d, el Barrio 18 desat\u00f3 el caos en Villa Nueva y la capital.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PxG005CQLH\">pic.twitter.com\/PxG005CQLH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ELBOLET\u00cdNSv (@ElBoletinSV) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ElBoletinSV\/status\/2012953882301800928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight agents of the National Civil Police of Guatemala died this Sunday, while around\u00a011 are injured\u00a0amid the\u00a0disturbances\u00a0that originated the previous day in three prisons in the country, organized by the Barrio 18 gang,\u00a0local media\u00a0report. According to reports, following yesterday&#8217;s riots in the prisons Renovaci\u00f3n 1, Fraijanes 2 and the Preventive for men in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[15100],"class_list":["post-497990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-guatemala"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25y6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}