Guatemala seeks aid, smuggler crackdown after Mexico migrant deaths

FILE PHOTO: Migrants travelling to the U.S. paint a banner in an improvised shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala urged the United States on Friday to invest in the country and elsewhere in Central America to boost development, and called for a crackdown on people-smuggling gangs after dozens of migrants died in a truck crash in Mexico.

Officials from Guatemala and Mexico pledged to tackle international people-smuggling networks they blamed for Thursday's accident that killed 55 mostly Guatemalan migrants.