Guatemala

Praise for Guatemala’s President

17 May 2013

The ambassador of Guatemala rebuts an online Op-Ed essay critical of President Otto Pérez Molina.

Amy Goodman: 3 heroines of Guatemala: judge, attorney general, Nobel Peace laureate

17 May 2013

The conviction of Guatemala's former president of genocide is a historic moment, brought about by three courageous women.

Guatemala's Maya finally find justice over civil war crimes

12 May 2013

By Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early 1980s. Caba witnessed rapes and kidnappings and endured bombing raids after dictator Efrain Rios Montt took power in a 1982 coup and conducted a ...