Efrain Rios Montt , former dictator of Guatemala, was found guilty in the massacre of more than 1,700 Mayan Indians in the early 1980s. Rios Montt, 86, insists that he had no knowledge of the campaign ...
When Víctor Montejo, a respected anthropologist and writer, became the first Mayan Indian to head Guatemala’s Peace Secretariat, he knew there were many who wanted to see him fail -- including some of ...
A historic trial is taking place in Guatemala. For the first time, according to rights activists, the country is prosecuting military officials for sexual violence committed during the Central ...
Starting around 1989, hundreds of Guatemalan laborers, almost all Highland Maya Indians, began migrating to the town of Morganton, N.C., to fill a chronic labor shortage at Case Farms, a local poultry ...
In September, a Guatemalan court convicted an army colonel of ordering the assassination of one of my colleagues, the anthropologist Myrna Mack. Mack had been interviewing victims of counterinsurgency ...
Maya artisans and knowledge keepers from Guatemalan and diasporic communities will join with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to celebrate Maya culture and history at events in ...
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TAMAULIPAS, MX - RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TX — It’s been 3 weeks since the asylum camp just across Brownsville was dismantled. Since then, a massive surge of migrants has crossed illegally into the U.S. Fox ...
A historic trial is taking place in Guatemala. For the first time, according to rights activists, the country is prosecuting military officials for sexual violence committed during the Central ...
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