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 ...

During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to determine how their lives had been affected by the civil war.

His 17 months in office were considered some of the most ruthless of the war, with entire towns of indigenous Mayans - who were accused of harbouring insurgents - wiped out. Guatemala's civil war ...

At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of a bloody civil war that started in 1960 and didn’t end until the signing of peace accords in 1996. Armed forces repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur ...

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 ...

A Guatemalan former soldier has been sentenced to more than 5,000 years in prison for his role in a massacre during the country's civil war. More than 200 people were killed in the village of Dos ...

As part of the Northern Triangle, along with El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places. Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ...

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.