The traditional Mayan ceremony was held to mark the conviction of three men for committing crimes against the women in the ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A retired military officer and a former paramilitary have gone on trial in Guatemala for alleged abuses against women during the Central American nation's long and bloody civil ...

A genocide trial has been underway in Guatemala since April 5 — and although Pedro Brito Matom says it's too dangerous now for him to attend it, he takes consolation in knowing he helped bring the ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

Exploring the contributions of the creative arts and embodied practices and beliefs to truth and justice seeking processes in Guatemala and beyond, led by Professor M. Brinton Lykes and Professor ...

The hill known as "Mayan face" or "Indian nose" is seen from the dock in the Mayan Tz'utujil community of San Juan La Laguna on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala in 2019. A missing Monterey Park woman may ...

SAN ANTONIO - Covering immigration, I have learned a lot about the Mayan Indians from Guatemala who came to the U.S. as migrants. Many of their stories are sad, but 17-year-old Karina's is one of the ...

Joyce Bennett is an anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on sociocultural and sociolinguistic issues in Central and North America, especially as they relate to social justice. She mostly ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of Guatemala.

Guatemalan textile workers describe brutal conditions inside the factories making clothes for some of the biggest brands in ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a ...