GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Government-backed experts say former Guatemalan dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt is mentally incompetent, potentially derailing a trial on human rights charges. The July 1 opinion ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's Supreme Court has provisionally cleared the way for the daughter of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt to run for president in the country's June elections. Court ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Survivors of Guatemala's bloody civil war relived the massacre of relatives as they testified on Wednesday against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who is accused of ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The lawyer representing former dictator Efrain Rios Montt against genocide charges was shot to death while driving in Guatemala’s capital Wednesday. Francisco Palomo was shot at ...

Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role The history of American support for Guatemala’s military went unacknowledged during the genocide trial of the former dictator Gen. Efraín ...

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was handed down 80 years for committing massacres against indigenous people in his country during his rule Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was ...

(CNN) — Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. A three-judge panel issued the verdict Friday, ...

A federal court in Guatemala has thrown out the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, which had been called a breakthrough in the region's human rights. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports ...

One of Central America's most infamous former dictators died this weekend. In March of 1982, Efrain Rios Montt seized power in Guatemala. That country was in the middle of a civil war, and the new ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Supreme Court on Monday began a retrial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for genocide, but in a fresh twist to a bizarre legal saga suspended it as the ...

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