Their deaths took place in the middle of Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war as a series of US-backed military governments cracked down on leftist rebels across the country. Guatemala’s ...

During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to determine how their lives had been affected by the civil war.

"In the garrison they had rooms where they would rape us; sometimes there were three, four or five soldiers,” Rosa Pérez*, one of the women used by the Guatemalan army as a sex slave during this ...

[Reuters] Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial ... to 1985 during the Central American country's decades-long civil war. The Paramilitary Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PACs) were ...

A history of Guatemala in Central America from the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors to the end of the Civil War and peace being signed in 1996. This clip could be used as a listening ...

As part of the Northern Triangle, along with El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places. Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ...