Otto Perez Molina

Otto Perez Molina

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  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 ... 

• 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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

• 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 ... 

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  Mexico's Maya heartland greets dawn of new era

  Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic ...