the rise of the plantation economy during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and the state-sponsored genocide during the ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations ...
TWO former military officials were each sentenced to over ... sexually abused and forced to cook and clean for the soldiers. At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of a bloody civil war that started ...
The overthrow of Árbenz deepened Guatemala’s structural inequalities, sparking a civil war that ... dramatically since World War II, continues to prioritize military dominance over social ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights released its ruling in the Case of Pérez Lucas et al v. Guatemala on Thursday, finding the State responsible for the forced disappearance of four Indigenous ...
The years of military rule in Chile, when thousands of people were killed or disappeared, have left deep scars More than 20 years have passed since the civil war ended in Guatemala and Chile ...
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo ... which was previously known as “El Infiernito,” was taken over last June by dozens of police and military personnel, who found weapons, money, liquor, ...
They disappeared in April 1989, during the first civilian presidency of Vinicio Cerezo after decades of military leadership, and amid Guatemala’s 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.