The intertwined anniversaries this year of Guatemala’s 1944 Revolution and the 1954 coup that ended it provide an essential ...

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.

a former general during Guatemala’s genocidal civil war in the 1980s. Declassified documents from the US government’s National Security Archive (NSA) show that Mr Ovalle commanded a special army unit ...

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 ...

An image is projected on a screen during the trial against five former members of the Civil ... civil war. The Paramilitary Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PACs) were created by the Guatemalan Army ...

In this immense and complex panorama, Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon stands out as a key figure, whose work not only explores his Jewish background, but also transcends cultural and temporal ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

19 international civil society organizations issued a statement Friday demanding due process guarantees at a key hearing for Guatemalan journalist Jose Rubén Zamora. The hearing is scheduled for ...

A Canadian mining firm began work in the region in the 1960s, when a civil war was raging between Guatemala’s business-friendly elite and Mayan peasant groups. Tensions erupted here almost ...

Police were out in force in Guatemala City on Monday after arson attacks on a building Tension is rising in Guatemala, where protests by supporters of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo have run ...

GUATEMALA CITY — The family of a Guatemalan journalist on Saturday celebrated his transfer to house arrest following his jailing for more than two years amid his daily newspaper’s anti ...

Guatemalan Judge Grants Investigative Journalist Zamora House Arrest and His Family Celebrates GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The family of a Guatemalan journalist on Saturday celebrated his transfer to ...