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Guatemala endured a bloody civil war that lasted 36 years, and by its conclusion in 1996, the UN estimated 200,000 had died — more than 80 percent of them from Indigenous Mayan communities.
Outside the window, a storm gathers over Lake Atitlan. Inside, more than 50 women activists, including Guatemalan indigenous land defenders, international feminist leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
PERALTA: Guatemala has had Indigenous presidential candidates in the past. The Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu ran in 2007 and 2011, but she only got about 3% of the vote.
GUATEMALA CITY — Rigoberta Menchu's spacious modern home blends seamlessly into this gated upper middle-class neighborhood on the edge of Guatemala City. But behind the walls and guards, there are ...
In Guatemala, authorities arrested Indigenous leader Luis Pacheco, accusing him of terrorism, in what his supporters say is retaliation for leading nationwide protests in 2023 against attempts to ...
Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office has detained two Indigenous leaders on spurious terrorism charges tied to their participation in peaceful protests.
With a walk, ceremonies, dances, music, and a demonstration of the ancestral ball game, indigenous people commemorate this Saturday in a Mayan village in Guatemala the 500 years of “resistance” after ...
Guatemala’s indigenous people grow impatient with their champion The president is struggling with his “new spring” anti-corruption drive ...
A top Guatemalan court on Friday sentenced three former paramilitaries each to 40 years in prison after they were found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983, the bloodiest ...
Marta Julia Muñoz, left, and Marisol Guerra, right, travelled to BC to highlight Indigenous opposition to a Vancouver-based company’s plans for a Guatemalan silver mine. Photo for The Tyee by ...
Two delegates from a Guatemalan Indigenous group travelled to Vancouver this week to call on Canada to end its support of a B.C.-based mining company’s massive silver mine in Indgenous ...