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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court ...

Juan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla, nestled in Guatemala’s western highlands. He escaped, hiding in the wilderness, but could not save his ...

SANTA AVELINA, Guatemala — Juana García Gómez, 75, wept over two coffins placed side by side in the sports hall of the Santa Avelina school in the western highlands of Guatemala. Inside one lay the ...

* Guatemala police archives could prompt civil war charges * Official human rights ombudsman discloses contents * The files are the latest fallout from 1960-1996 conflict (Adds vice president quotes, ...

Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force dubbed the "killing machine," will have to live to be 6,114-years-old if he wants to survive the 6,060-year prison sentence ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Guatemala’s first president with a military background in 25 years said Tuesday the drug war can’t be won with arms alone, and pledged that his administration will focus on ...

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** Economic crisis cuts army funding to fight smugglers ** Wealthy smugglers build roads, airstrips to move drugs By Sarah Grainger EL PERU, Guatemala, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The economic crisis has ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitary fighters raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country's 36-year civil war, a ...

For 14 years, a human skeleton known as 317-38-10 sat in a cardboard box stored in a metal shipping container on the rooftop of a building in Guatemala’s capital, Guatemala City. The number was a code ...