http://www.mail.com/locations/23960-guatemala-city.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/23960-guatemala-city.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2127710-kerry-calling-major-changes-35-nation-oas.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding reforms in the 35-nation Organization of American States as he visits Latin America for the first time since taking office. Leading the U.S. delegation to the annual general assembly of the OAS — an organization he has disparaged as ineffective, inefficient and nearly irrelevant — Kerry... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:16:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2127710-kerry-calling-major-changes-35-nation-oas.html 2013-06-05T00:16:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108256-ex-guatemala-president-extradited-to-us.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts. The former president was taken from a military hospital where he was recovering from liver surgery and a heart condition and put on a plane, according to ... Sat, 25 May 2013 01:49:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108256-ex-guatemala-president-extradited-to-us.html 2013-05-25T01:49:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2099240-guatemala-top-court-overturns-genocide-conviction.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings. The ruling late Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first guilty verdic... Tue, 21 May 2013 06:06:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2099240-guatemala-top-court-overturns-genocide-conviction.html 2013-05-21T06:06:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2079608-prison-ex-dictator-soothes-guatemala.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 window, after receiving a landmark 80-year sentence for genocide and crime against humanity. It was a steep fall for the now-86-year-old former strongman who ruled Guatemala from March 198... Sun, 12 May 2013 03:08:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2079608-prison-ex-dictator-soothes-guatemala.html 2013-05-12T03:08:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2077970-ex-dictator-convicted-genocide-guatemala.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said. Relatives of those killed and activists celebrated the 80-year... Sat, 11 May 2013 05:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2077970-ex-dictator-convicted-genocide-guatemala.html 2013-05-11T05:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2077968-developments-guatemala-trial-rios-montt.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — In 1999: Guatemalan non-governmental organization Association for Justice and Reconciliation files a complaint against army officials, including former Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, saying they're responsible for killings of thousands of Ixil Mayans during country's 36-year civil war. Victims try for years without success to get courts to act against military... Sat, 11 May 2013 02:26:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2077968-developments-guatemala-trial-rios-montt.html 2013-05-11T02:26:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2078064-rios-montt-army-to-dictatorship-to-courtroom.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 first Latin American strongman to stand trial and be convicted on genocide charges in his own country. A three-member tribunal also found Rios Montt guilty of crimes against humanity and s... Fri, 10 May 2013 23:37:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2078064-rios-montt-army-to-dictatorship-to-courtroom.html 2013-05-10T23:37:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2074980-ex-dictator-denies-ordered-guatemala-genocide.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 his genocide trial. The 86-year-old ex-general, who ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983 during the height of its civil war, said prosecutors hadn't proved his participation i... Fri, 10 May 2013 02:30:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2074980-ex-dictator-denies-ordered-guatemala-genocide.html 2013-05-10T02:30:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2040810-top-court-sends-rios-montt-trial-to-judge.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 a judge who wants the proceedings to go back to square one. A spokesman for the Constitutional Court, Martin Guzman, said the case of Efrain Rios Montt now goes back to Judge Carol Patri... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:17:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2040810-top-court-sends-rios-montt-trial-to-judge.html 2013-04-24T05:17:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2007462-guatemala-war-trial-puts-closer-to-president.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 country's current leader. A former soldier testifying at the genocide trial of ex-strongman Efrain Rios Montt, now 86, directly accused President Otto Perez Molina of ordering pillaging... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:25:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2007462-guatemala-war-trial-puts-closer-to-president.html 2013-04-09T15:25:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1965288-call-justice-opens-guatemala-ex-leader-trial.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 of his neighbors, tearing the hearts out of victims and setting fire to houses. Nicolas Brito was the first of at least 150 witnesses expected to give their testimony in the trial of Gen.... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:21:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1965288-call-justice-opens-guatemala-ex-leader-trial.html 2013-03-20T03:21:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1963330-ex-guatemala-strongman-trial-30-years.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 of the bloodiest phases of the country's long civil war. In its absence, with trial set to start Tuesday, prosecutors hope to painstakingly prove through a detailed recreation of the mi... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:14:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1963330-ex-guatemala-strongman-trial-30-years.html 2013-03-18T21:14:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907606-guatemala-evidence-gunfight-capos-death.html SAN VALENTIN, Guatemala (AP) — A Guatemalan official said Friday there was no evidence that Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, had been killed in a shootout in the rural north, calling such reports a misunderstanding. Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla told local media that the original account was based on testimony from res... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:17:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907606-guatemala-evidence-gunfight-capos-death.html 2013-02-22T23:17:48Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1865304-us-military-expands-drug-war-latin-america.html The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny August morning, Ensign Clarissa Carpio, a 23-year-old from San Francisco, climbed into the inflatable dinghy ... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1865304-us-military-expands-drug-war-latin-america.html 2013-02-03T16:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851666-guatemala-ex-dictator-to-stand-trial-genocide.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 murder, torture and displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians, a judge ruled Monday. Human rights advocates have said that the prosecution of Jose Efrain Rios Montt would be an important sy... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851666-guatemala-ex-dictator-to-stand-trial-genocide.html 2013-01-29T01:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806702-guatemala-builds-private-city-to-escape-crime.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The highway climbs toward the edge of Guatemala City, past deep ravines where the poorest residents of the capital live in thousands of cinderblock huts, roofed with plastic sheets and powered by black cables stealing electricity from nearby lampposts. Seven miles (11 kilometers) south of the historic center, the rutted, two-lane roa... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806702-guatemala-builds-private-city-to-escape-crime.html 2013-01-08T18:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1785650-prosecutor-killed-guatemala-with-6.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's attorney general dispatched a special team Monday to investigate the slaying of a federal prosecutor and six other people in an attack near the Mexican border. Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz said she was sending prosecutors and investigators to the area of northern Guatemala where Irma Yolanda Olivares, who worked in ... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1785650-prosecutor-killed-guatemala-with-6.html 2012-12-24T19:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1777764-quotes-most-positive-countries.html Comments by people in some of the countries that a Gallup poll ranks as the world's most and least positive: MOST POSITIVE 1. PANAMA "We're naturally very happy. We have our problems in life but we forget them quickly and we start over; it's a question of culture." — Hildaura Ortega, 30, English p... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1777764-quotes-most-positive-countries.html 2012-12-19T21:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1777240-latin-americans-rank-happiest-people-planet.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The world's happiest people aren't in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren't in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy. Canada, with its chart-topping percentage of college graduates, doesn't make the top 10. A poll released Wednesday of nearly 150,000 people around the world says seven of the world's 10 co... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1777240-latin-americans-rank-happiest-people-planet.html 2012-12-19T21:47:00Z