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Guatemala human rights
Guatemala Indigenous Community Appear before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Sa'Komonil Association accompanied the community authorities representing the 64 families that make up the Agua Caliente Indigenous Community, Lot 9, in the municipality...
Families block road after bloody Guatemala village attack
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Grieving family members on Monday blocked a major road in Guatemala with the coffins of victims of a weekend massacre by a rival group...
Guatemala’s Rigoberta Menchú laments impunity for massacre perpetrated 37 years ago
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú on Friday lamented the impunity that surrounds the massacre of indigenous people by the military in the north of the country 37 years ago during the civil war.
PHOTOS: Esquipulas II – 5 presidents who came together to choose their own path
On Aug. 7, 1987, five Central American presidents signed a peace accord known as Esquipulas II, named after the city in Guatemala where the first round of meetings had taken place the previous year. The accord included a number of provisions for cooperation between the five countries, and most notably, it called for an end to support for “irregular forces” by all of the signatories.
Biden to discuss child migrants at Guatemala visit
Guatemala is the last stop on Biden's four-country tour of Latin America.
Guatemala’s ex-police chief gets life sentence in Switzerland
Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen on Friday received a life sentence in Switzerland for seven murders committed in the Central American country.