Twenty years ago, Guatemala came to the end of its bloody, 36-year-long civil war. Here are four things to know about Guatemala’s steps towards democracy since then. 1. Getting to democracy has ...

During the 1980s, as much of Central America became a bloody Cold War battleground, the conflict in Guatemala stood out as exceptionally sinister. Guatemala's civil war devastated the country's ...

Site 317 had been a military base during the civil war that ravaged Guatemala from 1960 to 1996. In 2003, when forensic archaeologists dug a few feet into the ground, they found piles of bones.

1960– Guatemala’s 36-year civil war began as left-wing guerilla groups started battling government military forces. The country was now under autocratic rule by Gen. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, ...

Guatemalan civil war survivor Gabriel de Paz, 62, moves through a bus on the way to a ceremony marking the anniversary of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt’s genocide conviction.

During the country's ongoing civil war, Guatemalan Army General Benedicto Lucas Garcia points to a map at a military garrison, Santa Cruz de Quiche, Guatemala, January 19, 1982.

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 ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearances of four Indigenous human rights defenders in 1989.

During the country's ongoing civil war, Guatemalan Army General Benedicto Lucas Garcia points to a map at a military garrison, Santa Cruz de Quiche, Guatemala, January 19, 1982.

A top Guatemalan court has sentenced three former paramilitaries to 40 years each in prison after they were found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983, one of the bloodiest ...

By Tara John and Ivonne Valdés, CNN and CNN en Español (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 ...