Two ex-military officers are on trial in Guatemala, accused of sexual abuse of women in the 1980s during the country’s civil war.

A day after taking office, President Otto Perez Molina has called on Guatemala’s military to help “neutralize” organized crime in the Central American nation.

Óscar Mejía Victores, a Guatemalan brigadier general who presided over some of the bloodiest years of his country’s civil war before seizing power in a 1983 coup and ultimately returning the ...

Arévalo, the supposed icon of democracy, ... In 1977, the Jimmy Carter administration felt compelled to end military aid to Guatemala due to widespread reports of human rights abuses, ...

But the DEA did nothing back in Guatemala when, shortly after the arrests, the military merely moved the same smuggling operation to a rural area outside town, according to family farmers in a ...

A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 ...

It trained Guatemalan officers at U.S. military schools and deployed green berets to Guatemala during the 1960s. By the early 1980s when the Mayan Ixil became victims of genocide, ...

Reuters. Migrants are seen outside the repatriation center after arriving on a deportation flight from the U.S., at La Aurora Air Base in Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 27, 2025.

A woman celebrates outside the court at the end of a trial in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. The court sentenced three former special forces soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each for the ...