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 ...

Guatemala's long civil war resulted in 200,000 people killed or ... of the atrocities committed to the armed forces. During the military ceremony Friday, Morales announced that he was giving ...

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 ...

Guatemala's former military leader Efrain Rios Montt ... ordering the killing of more than 1,700 ethnic Mayans during a civil war. The last several years of his life were spent fighting a legal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The constitutional court of Guatemala has barred Zury Ríos, the daughter of ex-military ruler Efraín ... most ruthless periods of Guatemala's civil war when entire Mayan villages were wiped ...

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.