Indigenous survivors of the Guatemalan army’s “scorched earth” strategy in the 1980s say they will push to lift the suspension of a former dictator’s genocide trial.
A legal tool US advocates have used against human rights abusers for three decades is now "close to a dead letter" thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
Murders of activists continue while attention is focused on the trial of former dictator Ríos Montt and testimony against current president Pérez Molina.
After 30 years of efforts by victims and advocates, former military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt is on trial for genocide—while the current president denies there was genocide in Guatemala.
A federal magistrate judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced "Nashua" Chantal to the maximum for trespassing at the US Army's Fort Benning base to protest the notorious SOA.
Teachers’ college students march 50 kilometers to protest new requirements for teachers; meanwhile, two grassroots leaders are murdered in just three days.
An international campaign is demanding that President President Otto Pérez Molina provide land for indigenous campesino families expelled from their fields in the Polochic Valley.
A Guatemalan judge ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the killing of more than 1,700 Maya villagers.
Tourists are flocking to Mexico for the “end of the Maya calendar,” but Maya elders protest that they are barred from performing ceremonies at the archeological sites.
Mexican drug cartels that use cattle ranching to launder narco-profits as well as Chinese-backed illegal timber gangs are eating into Guatemala's vast Maya Biosphere Reserve.
Guatemalan authorities arrested a colonel and eight soldiers over the extrajudicial killings of eight indigenous protestors in the department of Totonicapan last week.
Guatemalan authorities arrested the presumed leader of a Zetas cell in the region along the Mexican border, where the group's incursion has forced the displacement of local residents.
