Police in Guatemala arrest two men suspected of involvement in the 1982 massacre of 268 people during the country’s civil conflict.

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Guatemala holds massacre suspects

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Guatemalan security forces raid locations in the north of the country as some of the 27 victims of the weekend’s mass killing are buried.

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Raids follow Guatemalan massacre

A survivor from a mass killing in Guatemala relives his experiences at the hands of suspected Mexican drugs cartel members.

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Guatemala massacre details emerge

GUATEMALA CITY — Assailants killed at least 29 people — decapitating most of the victims — on a ranch in a part of northern Guatemala plagued by drug cartels, national police said Sunday. The massacre took place early Sunday in the town of Caserio La Bomba in Peten province near the Mexico border, according to National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez. Among the 29 dead were two children and two women. It is one of the worst massacres since the end of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war in 1996. Read full article > >

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Massacre in drug-ridden northern Guatemala leaves 29 dead, most victims beheaded

In what a police spokesman has called “the worst massacre we have seen in modern times,” unidentified gunmen have killed at least 27 people–decapitating most of the victims–in a Guatemalan village close to border with Mexico. The murder of 25 men and…

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27 Killed in Guatemala Massacre

The decapitated bodies of 25 men and two women – believed to be victims of a drugs feud – are found at a ranch close to Guatemala’s Mexico border.

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Guatemala ‘drugs gang’ kills 27

Officials in Guatemala have found 27 bodies, the majority of which were decapitated, at a farm in the northern region of Peten, Col. Rony Urizar, an army spokesman, said Sunday.

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27 found dead at Guatamalan farm

It’s final. Five weeks after announcing that she would seek a divorce from her husband, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Sandra Torres is no longer Guatemala’s first lady. A family court in Guatemala City has granted the divorce petition. It’s a controversial case that has created uproar in the mostly conservative and Catholic Central American nation.

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Guatemalan divorce creates uproar

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and First Lady Sandra Torres are granted a divorce, clearing the way for her to stand for election to succeed him.

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Guatemala leaders granted divorce

It’s kind of like when Mom and Dad tell you they’re getting divorced for your own good: Guatemala’s first lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, has begun divorce proceedings against her husband, President Alvaro Colom, so that she can run for president….

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Guatemala First Lady Files for Divorce

Lawyers representing Guatemalans deliberately infected with syphilis tell the US authorities to settle or face a lawsuit.

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US syphilis tests lawsuit looms

Ball-like mounds made of different colored clays point to a communal Maya effort to build a platform in Ceibal, Guatemala.

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Scientist at Work: Early Maya Building Rituals

Axes found in a ritual deposit in Ceibal, Guatemala, confirmed a close connection between the Maya and their neighbors, the Olmec.

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Scientist at Work: Maya Axes Show Cultural Ties

The vice president of a last-place soccer team in Guatemala has been shot to death after receiving threats about the club’s poor play.

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Guatemalan Soccer Official Is Killed