The traditional Mayan ceremony was held to mark the conviction of three men for committing crimes against the women in the ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 14 years, a human skeleton known as 317-38-10 sat in a cardboard box stored in a metal shipping container on the rooftop of a building in Guatemala’s capital, Guatemala City. The number was a code ...

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 ...

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 ...