Residents of a rural Guatemalan community have lynched five men accused of robbing homes damaged by recent earthquakes.

Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan ...

Nory Sontay Ramos thought her immigration check-in was routine. Five days later, she and her mother were swiftly deported to Guatemala — a country she barely remembers.

Dozens of foreigners from six different continents are being held at Guantanamo Bay, DHS officials have confirmed.

Guatemala's President Bernardo Arévalo announces asylum for Nicaraguan migrants deported by the U.S. who refuse to return ...

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 ...

Guatemala jails ex-paramilitaries for 40 years over rapes during civil war Lawyers for the six victims say ‘historic’ court decision recognises the plight of survivors who demanded justice for ...

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 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) ...

What followed was a 36-year civil war in which rural communities, many Indigenous, were caught between left-wing guerrillas and the Guatemalan government.

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 ...