Former first lady of Guatemala candidacy rejected

Guatemala's Constitutional Court on Monday rejected a final appeal by former first lady Sandra Torres to run for president, effectively barring her center-left party from participating in September's presidential election

Guatemala condemns 1960-1996 massacres

A tribunal in Guatemala passed the first condemnations following the 1960-1996 civil war in the country that witnessed massacres and mass murders. Four ex-militaries accused to have killed 201 peasants on 06-08.12.1982 received thousands of years in jail, practically life imprisonment.