GUATEMALA CITY — 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 on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla, nestled in Guatemala’s western ...

The remains of Indigenous Maya people killed in 1982 have been recovered from a storage facility in Chimaltenango to receive the dignified burial long denied them by the Guatemalan state ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Starting in 1982, during one of the darkest moments of Guatemala’s civil war, at least 11 Mayan Q’eqchi indigenous women were kidnapped, enslaved and raped over a period of ...

Guatemala, Central America’s most populated country, has been wracked by 36 years of civil war, gang violence and poverty. The country, which holds a presidential run-off election Sunday, is emerging ...

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) ...

Guatemala on Saturday asked Interpol to be on the lookout for a lawmaker accused of war crimes dating back to its 1960-1996 civil war. The request was made in case Edgar Ovalle, a deputy for the ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Guatemala’s first president with a military background in 25 years said Tuesday the drug war can’t be won with arms alone, and pledged that his administration will focus on ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous women stand next to an altar they created outside the Supreme Court as they wait for an expected ruling, by a different ...