U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez Molina said Monday, a remarkable turnaround ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The secrets from a vault of moldy documents long covered in bat and rat droppings could soon help to put former top Guatemalan officials behind bars, years after the country's brutal civil war ended in 1996. Clues found in the millions of police documents have lifted a lid on government repression during the 36-year war, and provided enough evidence to start sending ...

rr-or/kfk The Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s. Rios Montt has been accused of being responsible for some of the worse massacres during the Central American country's 36 years of civil war. The 85-year ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez said Monday, a remarkable turnaround for an ex-general elected on a

Guatemala City, Feb 9 (IANS/EFE) A family was reunited Wednesday in this capital 25 years after being separated by the country's 1960-1996 civil war.

The Associated Press The Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY The U.S. Treasury Department says a popular private lottery in Guatemala is a front for laundering drug money. The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control says it has designated Bingoton Millionario part of a drug-trafficking ring run by a 39-year-old woman. It calls the woman, Marllory Dadiana Chacon Rossell, one of the most ...

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Saturday he will propose legalizing drugs in Central America in an upcoming meeting with the region's leaders.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemala's first president from a military background in 25 years says he will focus on fighting hunger, noting it is a security problem too.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity as the Central American nation seeks to close files on a brutal 36-year civil war. A judge found sufficient evidence that linked Rios Montt, who ruled during a particularly bloody period in 1982 and 1983, to the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous people in ...

Offering hope to the street children of Guatemala is not only the job but also the passion of three Carthage residents who are the administrators of Life of Hope Ministries.