(GUATEMALA CITY) — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges …
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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, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader.
Constitutional Court secretary …
Ex-dictator Denies He Ordered Guatemala Genocide
(GUATEMALA CITY) — Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt denied on Thursday that he ordered the extermination of Ixil Mayas as he testified for the first time at his genocide trial.
The 86-year-old ex-general, who ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983 during the height of its civil war, said prosecutors hadn’t proved …
Guatemala Cracks Down on Anti-mine Protests
(XALAPAN, Guatemala) — Guatemala’s government declared a state of emergency and banned public gatherings in four townships east of the capital Thursday following several days of violent clashes between police and anti-mining …
