SANTA AVELINA, Guatemala — Juana García Gómez, 75, wept over two coffins placed side by side in the sports hall of the Santa Avelina school in the western highlands of Guatemala. Inside one lay the ...

Maya Ixil survivors of the Guatemalan civil war living in the country's western highlands gather in Chajul on May 10, 2023, to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide conviction of former dictator ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitary fighters raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country's 36-year civil war, a ...

A group of international human rights organizations warned this Friday about the risk of impunity in cases against Guatemalan military officers for massacres committed during the civil war (1960–1996) ...

(CNN) — Juan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla, nestled in Guatemala’s western highlands. He escaped, hiding in the wilderness, but could not ...

It occurred during the 1980s, as the civil war in Guatemala ground remorselessly on and the indigenous Mayan people were subjected to systematic extermination. Their villages were destroyed, more than ...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, a tightly knit community of conservative politicians in Guatemala celebrated. For years, they had lobbied hard, cultivating friends among ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of two known survivors of a notorious Guatemalan civil war massacre of 250 men, women and children in his small farming village has been granted political asylum to stay in ...

GUATEMALA CITY — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearance of four Indigenous human rights ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Retired Guatemalan colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of two known survivors of a notorious Guatemalan civil war massacre of 250 men, women and children in his small farming village has been granted political asylum to stay in ...