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A Watershed Moment for Guatemala: Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Celebrates Jailing of Ex-President
In Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina has been jailed on charges of corruption only hours after he resigned as president, bowing to massive popular protest. We speak to Mayan activist Rigoberta Menchú, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Her lawsuits helped bring former U.S.-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to trial...
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Guatemala landslide death toll tops 220 and another 350 missing
Prosecutors investigating possible criminal misconduct at the site on flank of Guatemala City after warnings about risk of building homes in the neighbourhood.
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Drug lords in Guatemala are burning down forests the size of Manhattan for cocaine-smuggling planes
Drug traffickers burning down Guatemalan forest to make clandestine landing strips for planes carrying US-bound cocaine have razed an area twice the size of Manhattan this year, officials say. The Central American country has declared a state of emergency over the fires ravaging its forests, which have hit hardest along its northern border with Mexico and Belize -- prime territory for drug gangs. The region, known as Peten, is known for the riches lying in its forests...
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The Secrets in Guatemala’s Bones
One afternoon in 1994, during his senior year in college, Fredy Peccerelli sat at an anthropology conference in Atlanta and stared at the man onstage. Peccerelli had seen the renowned bone detective Clyde Snow before, but only in a textbook. Snow, who was in his 60s, leaned forward at the lectern, speaking in his genial Texas drawl about blindfolded skulls and bodies dumped in clandestine graves. He wore his usual attire of an Irish tweed jacket, cowboy boots and a fedora.
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Ancient Mayan Superhighways Found in the Guatemala Jungle
An ancient network of roads that stretched over 150 miles has been discovered in the jungle of Guatemala, according to high-tech scanning carried out in the area. Used by the Maya for travel and transporting goods, the causeways were identified in the Mirador Basin, which lies in the far northern Petén region of Guatemala, within the largest tract of virgin tropical forest remaining in Central America.
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19 die in fire at Guatemala children's shelter
At least 19 people have been found dead at the scene of a fire in a shelter for children near Guatemala City, officials said. A spokesman for Guatemala's volunteer fire departments, Mario Cruz, said that firefighters were still extinguishing parts of the blaze. But he said that so far 19 bodies have been found and about two dozen people were being treated for injuries.
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Worse Than Tuskegee
In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment. By Sushma Subramanian.
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Guatemala brings charges in kids' home fire that killed 41
Three Guatemalan ex-child welfare officials have been formally charged in connection with a fire at a state-run home for troubled youth that killed 41 girls. Prosecutor Edwin Marroquin says the former officials will be prosecuted for the crimes of homicide, mistreatment of minors and dereliction of duty. They have denied responsibility for the deaths. Fifty-six girls were allegedly locked in an overcrowded room when the blaze broke out March 8. Some inside apparently lit a foam mattress.
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Fuego Volcano in Guatemala
Fuego Volcano erupts with a stunning back round of the Milkeyway. May 2,2017
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Magnitude 6.8 earthquake off of Guatemala's Pacific coast, USGS says
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off of Guatemala's Pacific coast Thursday, the US Geological Survey reports. The quake was recorded at about 24 miles (38 km) from the city of Puerto San Jose, according to the USGS.
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Crisis flares in Guatemala over corruption and organised crime
Guatemala has fallen into deep political crisis after the president declared the United Nations-backed anti-corruption chief investigating him and his party persona non grata, only to have the expulsion order blocked hours later by the country’s constitutional court.
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Israel praises Guatemala over decision to move embassy to Jerusalem
President Jimmy Morales follows Donald Trump by announcing plans to relocate his country’s embassy to the disputed city
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Sprawling Mayan cities uncovered by lasers
Latest technology reveals a network of more than 60,000 structures under Guatemala's jungle.
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'Immigration killed her': Guatemalan woman shot dead by US Border Patrol
A Guatemalan woman shot dead by a border patrol agent in Texas has been named as Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles by local media outlets which reported that she travelled to the US in the hope of finding work to pay for her education. Gómez, a 20-year-old Maya-Mam indigenous woman, died on Wednesday after she was shot in the head by an agent in the border town Rio Bravo, Texas.
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Six dead or missing after Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
At least seven people, including three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four decades, officials said. Fuego volcano, whose name means “fire” in English, spewed an 8km (five-mile) stream of lava and belched a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions.
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Guatemala Volcano Toll Rises To 75, 200 Still Missing
New explosions from the Fuego volcano, which erupted Sunday, were blanketing surrounding villages in thick ash, forcing new evacuations.
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Guatemala ends search for volcano victims with 200 still missing
Guatemala has ended its search for victims in the zone that suffered the most deaths and injuries from the Fuego volcano eruption, its disaster agency said. At least 110 people died and 197 are still missing after violent eruptions that began two weeks ago, according to disaster agency CONRED.
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Lasers Reveal 60,000 Ancient Maya Structures in Guatemala
The largest-ever survey of a region from the Maya civilization has located over 60,000 previously unknown structures in northern Guatemala. The survey, conducted with the help of lasers, challenges long-held assumptions that this area was poorly connected and sparsely populated. The structures researchers identified include farms, houses and defensive fortifications, as well as 60 miles of causeways, roads and canals connecting large cities across the civilization’s central lowlands.
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Thousands Flee as Guatemala Volcano Erupts
Almost 4,000 residents leave their homes as the Fuego volcano erupts for the fifth time this year.
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Why Are So Many Guatemalans Migrating to the U.S.?
As poverty and violence force Guatemalans to leave their country, one anthropologist reflects on her work with Indigenous peoples in the highlands—and shows how the U.S. is implicated in its own “migrant crisis.” By Emily Yates-Doerr.
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