Guatemala’s civil war began with a Cold War coup backed by foreign interests. Reform was crushed in the name of anti-communism. Political repression followed almost immediately. Violence spread across ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court ...

The Guardian reports the historic trial of former base commander Esteelmer Reyes Girón and former regional military commissioner Heriberto Valdez Asij will begin on Monday. Reyes is charged with ...

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 ...

Ixil Indigenous Jacinta Ceto, survivor of the Guatemalan civil war, attends the hearing against the retired general Benedicto Lucas Garcia at a court in Guatemala City (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP) ...

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 police archives could prompt civil war charges * Official human rights ombudsman discloses contents * The files are the latest fallout from 1960-1996 conflict (Adds vice president quotes, ...

Set in 2018, Diaz’s story centres around Ernesto Gonzalez (Armando Espitia, pictured left), a young anthropologist who is working for Guatemala’s Medico-Legal Institute, trying to identify the remains ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala on Tuesday sentenced four soldiers to 6,060 years of prison each, in the first conviction for a massacre during the country's brutal 36-year civil war. More than ...