Guatemala’s civil war was one of the longest and most brutal conflicts in Latin America during the Cold War. The roots of the conflict can be traced back to the 1954 coup that overthrew the country’s ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal ...

The government of Guatemala has restricted some civil rights for fifteen days in the Indigenous region where five people were shot dead on Saturday, President Bernardo Arévalo reported today. The area ...

Guatemala faced a serious security threat when armed groups from Mexico crossed its northern border and attacked rural communities. The incidents occurred on December 8, when cartel gunmen entered the ...

GUATEMALA CITY - During the 10 years since the end of a civil war that took 200,000 Guatemalan lives, the survivors have faced a recurring frustration: A family comes forward asking for information ...

Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force dubbed the "killing machine," will have to live to be 6,114-years-old if he wants to survive the 6,060-year prison sentence ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala's government filed 3,350 criminal complaints yesterday accusing former soldiers, paramilitaries and others of human-rights violations against more than 5,000 civilians ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday labelled as "a lie" testimony given during the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt that implicated Perez in atrocities ...