Fallout of Mayan Apocalypse - tourists damage an ancient Guatemalan pyramid
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Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2012-12-28 23:43:41 -0800 | travel-news
The world did not end on the Mayan Calendar appointed Doomsday, tourists damaged the Temple II, a pyramid in Guatemala which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. This pyramid is ancient stone pyramid at Tikal located about 340 miles north...
Guatemalan president accused of involvement in civil war atrocities
Source: World News
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-05 02:15:40 -0700 | travel-news
Former soldier tells trial that Otto Perez Molina ordered soldiers to burn and pillage during 1980s war Guatemala 's president, Otto Perez Molina. Photograph : Johan Ordonez / AFP A former soldier has implicated the Guatemalan president, Otto Perez Molina,...
Guatemala cracks down on anti-mine protests
Source: Boston.com
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-02 19:27:54 -0700 | travel-news
The Guatemalan government has declared a state of emergency and banned public gatherings in four townships east of the capital following clashes between police and anti-mining protesters. Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said Thursday police and soldiers have been sent...
Guatemala suspends ex-leader's trial
Source: BBC
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-19 01:32:23 -0700 | travel-news
Guatemala judge suspends trial of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt's trial began in March A judge in Guatemala has suspended the trial of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt. He was being tried for a counter-insurgency plan that killed...
Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
Source: The Boston Globe
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-21 07:33:06 -0700 | travel-news
Guatemala's top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman said the trial needs to go back to where it stood on April 19...
Embassy Row: Grave situation
Source: The Washington Times
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-05 20:25:37 -0700 | travel-news
A leading member of Congress is accusing the Iraqi government of failing to protect unarmed Iranian dissidents from terrorist attacks in a refugee camp near Baghdad. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wrote Iraqi Ambassador Jabir Habeb Jabir to complain that his government...
Guatemalan who helped build genocide case against ex-dictator was survivor, too
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-21 06:47:28 -0700 | travel-news
But Mr. Canil's eyes water just as quickly when he remembers witnessing the massacre of his own Mayan family at the hands of Guatemalan troops when he was just six years old.
Rape victims speak at Guatemala ex-strongman trial
Source: The Boston Globe
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-02 14:55:31 -0700 | travel-news
Victims of sexual assault have told judges at the trial of Guatemala's former U.S.-backed strongman that indigenous women were systematically gang-raped by soldiers and members of paramilitary groups during the country's 36-year civil war. With their faces covered, the witnesses...
Ex-Guatemala dictator rejects genocide charges
Source: CNN
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-10 18:10:44 -0700 | travel-news
He denied he had any role as head of state in the atrocities the military carried out on indigenous Ixil Mayans during his brief rule from 1982 to 1983. "I never authorized, I never signed, I never proposed, I never...
Guatemala Rios Montt denies genocide
Source: BBC
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-09 22:28:47 -0700 | travel-news
Guatemala ex-leader Rios Montt denies genocide At times Gen Rios Montt reacted angrily in court The former military leader of Guatemala, Efrain Rios Montt, has protested his innocence at the end of his trial on genocide charges. It was the...
Guatemalan court faces calls to halt former dictator's genocide trial
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-18 22:10:30 -0700 | travel-news
The landmark case has garnered worldwide attention, presented expert testimony from three continents, and already made history books.
Guatemalan dictator guilty of genocide
Source: CNN
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-11 00:19:57 -0700 | travel-news
A three-judge panel issued the verdict Friday, one day after the conclusion of the trial...The trial marked the first time that a head of state was tried for genocide by his country's own judicial system.
Guatemala war trial puts past closer to president
Source: The Boston Globe
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-09 04:38:25 -0700 | travel-news
Guatemala's struggle to deal with the war crimes of the past, including bringing an aging former dictator and his officers to justice, has taken a sharp turn to the present. A mechanic testifying at the genocide trial of ex-strongman Efrain...
Ex-dictator's backers rally at Guatemala prison
Source: Fox News
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-05-12 15:08:10 -0700 | travel-news
At least 500 people have protested outside a Guatemala prison against the genocide conviction for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Supporters dressed in white and military garb shouted "Viva Rios Montt" on Sunday outside the Matamoros prison. That's where the...
War crimes trial for former Guatemalan dictator hits a snag
Source: United Press International
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-04-20 13:23:13 -0700 | travel-news
A judge in Guatemala postponed the genocide trial of former military dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, angering protesters who allege he committed genocide. Judge Jazmin Barrios pressed ahead Friday despite another judge's ruling Thursday that the charges should be nullified...
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