Guatemalan military kills fisherman, falsely blames Belize authorities

On 2026-04-11, Guatemalan military personnel opened fire on a fishing vessel near Punta de Manabique, Guatemala. One fisherman, Jaime Geovanni Ich Ramos, was killed and another, Julio Cesar Pineda, was wounded in the shoulder and hospitalized. The article says soldiers later transported the wounded men to the hospital and falsely blamed Belizean authorities for the shooting.