Guatemala News

Guatemalan prosecutors announced January 26 that 85-year old EfraA n RA os Montt, military dictator in 1982-1983, was going to trial in March.

Leaving Semuc Champey is surreal in a way. The ride in the pick up truck is steep and exciting and the drive out of the valley may ascend through fog that has accumulated in the early morning hours.

For most of his life, Jos Marti moved from place to place, collecting the experiences and knowledge that would influence his work as a writer, revolutionary and educator.

Danilo Rodriguez Galvez said Judge Carol Patricia Flores was supposed to issue her decision only after hearing testimony on allegations that Rios Montt was involved in hundreds of murders, human violations and the displacement of 29,000 during Guatemala's bloody, three-decade civil war.

Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt wipes sweat from his forehead in a courtroom in Guatemala City, Thursday Jan.

27, 2012--Six University of Delaware students are wrapping up a memorable Winter Session journey this week.

After East Haven's mayor's words made her cry, Reyna Catalan invited him to Middletown Avenue to try her tacos - and witness the sacrifice immigrants make.

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This is a guest post by Natalie Kitroeff, a research associate here at the Council on Foreign Relations who works with me in the Latin America program.

Guatemala City: On Sunday the officials said that in the nightclub of Guatemala the assailants has sprayed with the gunfire and in that nearly 20 of the people were wounded and also at least eight of the people were killed.

Guatemala City, Jan 23 At least eight people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when gunmen opened fire at a disco in Villa Nueva, a city in the southern part of the Guatemala City metropolitan area, authorities said.

Eight people were killed and 20 wounded overnight near the Guatemalan capital when assailants sprayed a packed nightclub with gunfire, officials said on Sunday.

Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt must appear in criminal court in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous Guatemalans during his de-facto government in the 1980s, a government prosecutor said.

Scores of people form the number 2012 inside the crater of the Volcan de Agua volcano, near the village of Santa Maria de Jesus in Guatemala, on January 21.

The first measure taken by the newly elected authorities in the municipality of San JosA© el Rodeo in San Marcos was to dismiss, on 16 January, all of its unionised employees.

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Los Angeles police released the names Monday of two men arrested in connection with the killing of a 24-year-old man who was trying to help his grandfather who was being robbed outside his Sun Valley home.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory has been so whitewashed, even conservatives frequently quote him out of his broader moral and social context.

What she said: "My mom, Rita Rapp, and I traveled the Route of the Maya in Central America," said Nancy Bachmann, of Millcreek Township.

President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Guatemala to attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Otto Perez Molina on January 14, 2012.