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Ex-Guatemala President Pleads Not Guilty in NYC
An ex-president of Guatemala accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars stolen from his country through U.S. bank accounts pleaded not guilty in New York...
Ex-Guatemala President Extradited to U.S.
(GUATEMALA CITY) — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan...
Guatemala Top Court Overturns Genocide Conviction
(GUATEMALA CITY) — Guatemala's top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart,...
Fugitive Software Guru John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala, Faces Expulsion
After more than three weeks on the run from authorities in Belize, John McAfee was arrested Wednesday by Guatemalan authorities.
Guatemala Earthquake Kills 48, Injures Hundreds
A 74 magnitude earthquake struck Guatemala Wednesday killing more than 48 and injuring hundreds The 20miledeep quake's epicenter was near the coastal town of...
Peace Through Security: What Does Central America's Crime Crisis Call For?
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's re-election victory on Sunday, Nov. 6, is widely regarded as an affront to democracy in Central America, since his...
Memo to Otto Pérez: Central America Needs Fewer Iron Fists and More Decent Cops
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's re-election victory on Sunday, November 6, is widely regarded as an affront to democracy in Central America, since his...
The Murder of Facundo Cabral: Death Squads Still Roam Latin America
After this past weekend, it seems even more fitting that Guatemala was the site of last month's high-level international pow-wow on how dangerous Central America...
Guatemala's Kaibil Terror: From Dictators to Drug Cartels
If you're an old enough resident of Guatemala's northern Petén department, May 14, 2011, felt a lot like December 6, 1982. In May, on the Los Cocos ranch near...
Worst Nightmare: Sinkhole Opens Up Under Woman's Bed in Guatemala
A 40-foot-deep, 3-foot-wide crater almost swallowed a woman sleeping on top. And it's not the first time a sinkhole traumatized residents in Guatemala City. The...
Ex-Guatemala President to Be Tried in U.S.
When he was President of Guatemala, from 2000 to 2004, Alfonso Portillo promised a crusade against one of the Central American country's biggest scourges:...
Take a Break at Guatemala's Lake Atitlan
Flanked by volcanoes and colorful Maya villages, Guatemala's Atitlan is one of the most striking lakes in the world, and there are few better places to lap up...
Postcard: Guatemala City.
It's been five centuries since Pedro de Alvarado, a homicidal Spanish conquistador, seized from the Maya the volcanic realm that became Guatemala. But his...
In Guatemala, a Village that Cocaine Built
The village of La Reforma in eastern Guatemala doesn't seem like the kind of place that would have a first-rate hospital and a handful of mansions. There's no...
Jungle Gym: Maya Ruins in Guatemala
Guatemala's most popular Maya ruins lie at Tikal, but for real bragging rights you'll have to head deep into the Peten jungle, where you'll find the ancient city...
Mexico Exports Its Drug Wars to Guatemala
Just as Mexico lives in the shadow of the U.S., Guatemala lives in the shadow of Mexico. To its southern neighbor Mexico has exported its ranchera music, its...
Violence Haunts Guatemala's Election
Guatemala goes to the polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's...
Guatemala: The 70% Solution
As Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 42, strode into the headquarters of his Christian Democratic Party in downtown Guatemala City last week, he was one step closer to...
Guatemala Giving Democracy A Chance
Even by the brutal standards of Central American politics, Guatemala's reputation for murderous repression is chilling. Since a U.S.-backed coup in 1954, more...
Guatemala: A New and Deadly Phase
Guerrillas and the army escalate combat Windows in the genteel Zona Diez district of Guatemala City rattled last week to an increasingly familiar sound: the...
