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Central America’s first penguins adapt to new home in Guatemala

Six male and six female penguins were donated by France’s Beauval ZooParc on the condition that a Guatemalan zoo would try to breed them.

Guatemala reeling from mass police slaying

Drug cartels are suspected of carrying out the brazen and brutal attack. President Otto Pérez Molina may declare a state of emergency in the area to respond to the violence.

Guatemalans continue speaking out on atrocities during Ríos Montt era

The conviction on genocide charges of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt may have been overturned, but now the world knows the brutality committed by his military regime in the 1980s.

Extradited Guatemalan ex-President Portillo due in U.S. court Tuesday

Alfonso Portillo, a former member of ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt's political party, is the first former Latin American leader ever to be extradited to the United States.

Guatemala extradites ex-President Portillo to the U.S. on money laundering charges

Alfonso Portillo was flown to the U.S. by Secret Service agents on a private jet.

Guatemala’s Maya outraged at genocide ruling annulment

Nebaj mayor: The annulment "mocks the Ixil people."

Guatemala court strikes down ex-dictator’s genocide conviction

Ruling is unclear as to whether the case will be retried in the near future.

A landmark genocide case comes to unexpected and dramatic end

The genocide trial of retired Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt and former intelligence chief José Mauricio Rodríguez has seen its ups and downs and frequent delays. But it came to an abrupt end following a whirlwind two days of hearings. Casey Cagley reports from Guatemala City.

Guatemalan ex-dictator Ríos Montt denies being ‘genocidal’ as historic trial wraps up

"I never had the intention, the aim to destroy any national ethnic group," Efraín Ríos Montt said. "I am not genocidal."

Guatemala court upholds genocide trial for ex-dictator Ríos Montt

Defense attorneys said Ríos Montt never knew the army was committing massacres.

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