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Guatemalan Ex-President Alfonso Portillo is Extradited to U.S.
May 25, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Alfonso Portillo, who was Guatemala's president from 2000-2004, was extradited Friday to the United States to face money laundering charges. He was handed over to U.S. agents at a military airfield and then boarded a government aircraft to be taken to New York. continue reading »
Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Rios Montt Guilty Verdict Overturned by Constitutional Court
May 21, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturned former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's genocide conviction and ordered a partial retrial. continue reading »
Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Hospitalized After Guilty Verdict Causes Collapse
May 13, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemalan former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, facing 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity, was hospitalized Monday after collapsing on his way to a court hearing, his lawyer said. continue reading »
Former Dictator Vows to Appeal Genocide Verdict in Guatemala
May 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemalan ex-strongman Efrain Rios Montt has vowed to appeal his 80-year sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, insisting he is innocent and that the trial was an "international political show." continue reading »
Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Receives 80-Year Sentence
May 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemalan former strongman Efrain Rios Montt was convicted Friday of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 80 years in prison. continue reading »
Constitutional Court Suspends Genocide Trial of Ex-Dictator in Guatemala
May 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemala's Constitutional Court has ordered the temporary suspension of the genocide trial of former strongman Efrain Rios Montt and co-defendant Jose Rodriguez, a spokesman for the tribunal said Saturday. continue reading »
State of Siege Imposed on Eastern Guatemala
May 3, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
President Otto Perez Molina imposed a state of siege on four municipalities in the eastern part of the country following the abduction of 23 police officers and the killing of another cop, the Guatemalan government said Thursday. continue reading »
Guatemala’s Mayan-Inspired Time Capsule to Open in 2065
April 29, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Taking a page book out of the Mayan's Guatemala has launched a time capsule that will not be opened until 52 years from now. The marble time capsule will contain messages from leading thinkers in Guatemala to describe society today. continue reading »
Former Guatemalan Dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s Genocide Trial is Suspended
April 19, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A court in the Guatemalan capital decided on Friday to suspend the genocide trial of former strongman Efrain Rios Montt while vowing to fight another court's "illegal" move to quash the case. continue reading »
State Department, USAID Host Event Focused on Nutrition in Guatemala
April 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
On April 3, Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier and Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Food Security at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Paul Weisenfeld hosted Guatemalan Minister of Health Jorge Villavicencio, other Government of Guatemala officials, private sector representatives and a panel of nutrition experts at the Department of State for a joint discussion on Guatemala’s “Zero Hunger Pact” (“Pacto Cero Hambre”) to reduce chronic malnutrition. continue reading »
Witnesses Share Horrific Stories During Trial of Guatemalan Ex-dictator
April 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A survivor of the massacres carried out by the Guatemalan army during the 1982-1983 rule of strongman Efrain Rios Montt said Wednesday at the retired general's genocide trial that soldiers "ripped out" the heart of one of his children. continue reading »
6.2 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Guatemala
March 26, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific coast of Guatemala late Monday afternoon at approximately 4pm PST. The epic center was near the capital city of Guatemala City some 6 miles southeast. continue reading »
Crime Journalist Gunned Down in Guatemala
March 22, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A journalist with Nuestro Diario newspaper was fatally shot in the eastern Guatemalan province of Jutiapa, the publication said Thursday. Jaime Napoleon Jarquin Duarte, 63, was a former schoolteacher who joined the paper three years ago, Nuestro Diario said. continue reading »
Gen. Efrain Rios Montt Geneocide Trial Begins in Guatemala
March 19, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The genocide trial of former strongman Gen. Efrain Rios Montt began Tuesday inside a packed courtroom in the Guatemalan capital. continue reading »
Guatemalan Authorities Dismantle 2 Gangs, Arrest 34 Members
March 10, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two criminal organizations run by the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs have been dismantled and 34 people arrested in Guatemala, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said. continue reading »
Two Mexican Fishermen Killed in Guatemala
March 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two Mexican fishermen were murdered and their bodies found by residents on the coast of Retalhuleu, a province on Guatemala's Pacific coast, prosecutors said Sunday. continue reading »
Guatemalan Refugees Living in Mexico Agree to Repatriation
February 27, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The villagers from the Guatemalan community of Nueva Esperanza who took refuge in southern Mexico in 2011 reached an agreement with their country's government to be repatriated on Feb. 28, non-governmental organizations reported Tuesday. continue reading »
10-Year Old Guatemalan Boy Suspect in Murder of Taxi Driver
February 26, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Guatemala authorities are responding to the second 'child assassin' in just a week, here a 10-year-old boy shot and killed a cab driver without apparent provocation. continue reading »
Former Guatemalan Dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s Genocide Trial Moved to March
February 21, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A Guatemalan court has moved up by five months the trial of former strongman Gen. Efrain Rios Montt and one of his closest collaborators for genocide and crimes against humanity, a lawyer involved in the case told Efe Wednesday. continue reading »
President Perez Molina of Guatemala Has Audience with Pope Benedict
February 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
This morning, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict, received in audience Mr. Otto Fernando Perez Molina, president of Guatemala. continue reading »
