Central America
Guatemala: Ríos Montt trial implicates president
Murders of activists continue while attention is focused on the trial of former dictator Ríos Montt and testimony against current president Pérez Molina.
Tag: Guatemala
Central America
Guatemala: Rios Montt goes on trial at last
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.
Central America
Guatemala: students march against ‘reform’
Teachers’ college students march 50 kilometers to protest new requirements for teachers; meanwhile, two grassroots leaders are murdered in just three days.
Central America
Guatemala: campaign for evicted campesinos
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.
Central America
Guatemala: ex-dictator to stand trial for genocide
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.
Mexico
Mexico bans Maya ceremony at ancestral temples
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.
Central America
Criminal gangs threaten Maya Biosphere Reserve
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.
Central America
Guatemala: arrests in peasant massacre
Guatemalan authorities arrested a colonel and eight soldiers over the extrajudicial killings of eight indigenous protestors in the department of Totonicapan last week.
Central America
Guatemala claims arrest of local Zetas boss
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.
Central America
Guatemala: peasant massacre under investigation
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in the Guatemalan highlands.
Central America
UN report: drug trafficking threatens rule of law
Drug trafficking and violent crime in Central America and the Caribbean threaten the rule of law in those regions, according to a report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.