Genocide trial opens in Guatemala
A Guatemalan court convened for a fourth attempt to try former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
A Guatemalan court convened for a fourth attempt to try former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Thirteen Maya villagers are to stand trial in Belize over their expulsion of a settler they said had illegally encroached upon the grounds of an archeological site.
Honduran activist Nelson Noe García Lainez was gunned down upon returning home following the Military Police eviction of a peasant squatter community on contested lands.
Fears are being raised for the security of activists and human rights observers in Honduras following the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.
Berta Cáceres, a prominent indigenous activist in Honduras who last year won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, was slain in her home at La Esperanza village.
A retired army officer and an ex-paramilitary were sentenced to 120 years and 240 years, respectively, for sexual slavery and crimes against humanity during Guatemala's civil war.
Nahua-Pipil indigenous communities in El Salvador gathered to recall the 1932 genocide that marked the start of generations of suppression of their language and culture.
Guatemala's Supreme Court rejected a request to strip a congress member of immunity from prosecution for grave human rights violations committed during the country's civil war.
Prosecutors in Guatemala announced the arrest of 14 former military and government officials for alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country's civil war.
Financial woes for the Hong Kong-based developer and an unfavorable World Court ruling in a border dispute with Costa Rica have slowed Nicaragua's inter-oceanic canal project.
The Caribbean Court of Justice ruled in a land-rights case brought by indigenous Maya elders in Belize, finding that that their communal lands must be recognized.
Nicaragua's government approved environmental impact statements for the new inter-oceanic canal—and effectively shut down a planned national march to oppose the mega-project.