A week after a 16-year-old was shot at her high school in Nashville, her parents made the wrenching decision to send her body ...

Guatemala City, Guatemala - A high-risk court in Guatemala began on Tuesday the trial of three former members of a paramilitary force accused of sexual violence against more than 30 Maya Achi women, ...

A family that fled violence in Guatemala for a safer life in the United States is now grieving the loss of their daughter.

Pictures from her quinceanera are displayed in her bedroom alongside her soccer cleats, her teddy bears and quotes that she lived by. These belongings wait for her, but she won't be coming back. I ...

They fled Guatemala because of violence. “Uno viene huyendo aya y viene a caer a lo mismo aqui.” But violence found them in America. Dayana, at just 16, was killed in her high school cafeteria ...

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday that his country has agreed to accept migrants from other countries ...

Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign ...

is a dangerous business and is compounded when entrenched political elites become tied up with criminal actors experienced in violence. Despite this, the upcoming elections in Guatemala and ...

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country of striking geographical features, including active volcanoes, and a strong indigenous culture – as well as crushing poverty, violence and ...

Gang violence keeps surging across Port-au-Prince and beyond, with gunmen in recent days killing at least 40 people in an ...