Central America's rainforests are being destroyed by drug traffickers who cut roads and airstirps on officially protected lands, according to a paper in the journal Science.
Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo pleaded guilty in the US to taking $2.5 million in bribes from Taiwan in exchange for continued diplomatic recognition.
Tahoe's controversial silver mine in southeast Guatemala is now open for business, but local indigenous communities still want the company to get out.
US retailers have been caught selling apparel from a plant whose union-busting owner cheated the workers of their pension and healthcare benefits.
Unidentified assailants beat and shot Guatemalan indigenous leader and former guerrilla Juan Tuyuc; activists are demanding a thorough investigation.
Guatemala has emerged as a major opium producer in recent years, and President Otto Pérez Molina is now considering legalized and regulated cultivation.
The same court that threw out ex-dictator Ríos Montt's genocide conviction last spring is now looking for a way to get him an amnesty.
Mexican federal police announced the apprehension of a fugitive Gulf Cartel kingpin, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano AKA “Guayo”—wanted in Guatemala for a bloody attack on police.
Three accused Sinaloa Cartel operatives go on trial in the US, while Guatemala denies rumors that the cartel’s fugitive kingpin was killed in a jungle shoot-out with police.
Indigenous authorities in the Guatemalan pueblo of Nacahuil reject government claims that a massacre there was the work of drug gangs, pointing to violence against mining opponents.
Courts in Guatemala and Canada have issued important rulings in favor of anti-mining activists, and even President Pérez Molina has called for a moratorium on new licenses.
Local residents in Sacatepéquez continue their six-year campaign against a cement processing plant, despite management’s effort to appease them with a Mayan ceremony.
