
Ex-Guatemalan cop faces murder charges in Austria
Austrian prosecutors have charged a former senior Guatemalan police official with murder in connection with the shooting deaths of seven prison ...

Prison for ex-dictator soothes Guatemala
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt spent his first full day as a convict Saturday in a 16-by-13 foot cell with a small bed, bathroom and ...

Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and ...

Rios Montt: From army to dictatorship to courtroom
Efrain Rios Montt ruled as Guatemala's dictator, served as president of Congress, preached as an evangelical pastor and now, at 86, has become the ...

Ex-dictator denies he ordered Guatemala genocide
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt denied on Thursday that he ordered the extermination of Ixil Mayas as he testified for the first time at ...
Top court sends Rios Montt trial to new judge
Guatemala's highest court on Tuesday ordered that the genocide trial against one of the Central American country's former dictators be taken over by ...

Guatemala war trial puts past closer to president
Guatemala's struggle to deal with the war crimes of the past, including bringing an aging former dictator and his officers to justice, is hitting the ...

Call for justice opens Guatemala ex-leader trial
The first witness in the trial of Guatemala's former U.S.-backed dictator testified Tuesday that soldiers razed his village in 1982, killing dozens ...

Ex-Guatemala strongman on trial after 30 years
There is no smoking gun in the case files, no direct order from Guatemala's then military dictator to carry out the slaughter of civilians during one ...
FIFA warns Guatemala over match-fixing ruling
FIFA has threatened the Guatemala Football Association with suspension after a sports court there ordered lifetime bans overturned for three players ...

Vatican raises possibility of early March conclave
The Vatican raised the possibility Saturday that the conclave to elect the next pope might start sooner than March 15, the earliest date possible ...
El Papa recibe al presidente de Guatemala
El papa Benedicto XVI recibió el sábado en el Vaticano durante 25 minutos al presidente de Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, el último mandatario ...

Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started ...

Guatemala ex-dictator to stand trial on genocide
A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the ...
Arrests along US borders up in last year
A year after Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal border crossers plunged to the lowest levels in nearly 40 years agents have seen a slight increase ...

Guatemala builds private city to escape crime
The highway climbs toward the edge of Guatemala City, past deep ravines where the poorest residents of the capital live in thousands of cinderblock ...
Prosecutor killed in Guatemala along with 6 others
Guatemala's attorney general dispatched a special team Monday to investigate the slaying of a federal prosecutor and six other people in an attack ...

McAfee wants to return to US, 'normal life'
Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. In a ...

McAfee says he plans to seek asylum in Guatemala
Software company founder John McAfee has surfaced in public for the first time in weeks, saying Tuesday that he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala ...
Probe finds abuse in Guatemala mental hospital
Human rights groups say they found hundreds of women and children subjected to sexual and physical abuse at a public psychiatric hospital in ...