The government of Guatemala has restricted some civil rights for fifteen days in the Indigenous region where five people were shot dead on Saturday, President Bernardo Arévalo reported today. The area of Sololá, west of Guatemala City, has for years been ...

Guatemala faced a serious security threat when armed groups from Mexico crossed its northern border and attacked rural communities. The incidents occurred on December 8, when cartel gunmen entered the municipalities of San Marcos and Huehuetango, according ...

GUATEMALA CITY - During the 10 years since the end of a civil war that took 200,000 Guatemalan lives, the survivors have faced a recurring frustration: A family comes forward asking for information about a vanished parent, child, husband or wife, only to be told there is no paper trail to help their search.

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 he was handed on Monday for his role as in the 1982 ...