Maya People of Guatemala

What the Guatemalan government is doing is appealing to Guatemalan nationalism and trying to exploit the situation to hide the fact that Guatemala itself faces a ... of problems such as extreme poverty, the inequality of incomes between the classes, and the many injustices done to the native Mayan people.

GUATEMALA CITY — Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of ... Rios Montt was convicted in 2013 of genocide and crimes against humanity for the massacre of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans by security forces under his ...

Guatemala's former military leader Efrain Rios Montt, who briefly ruled the country in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91. In 2013, he became the first former head of state to face genocide charges in his own country. Gen Rios Montt was accused of ordering the killing of more than 1,700 ethnic Mayans ...

The Guatemalan government is accusing him of dozens of murders and atrocities committed against indigenous Mayans during the 1980s. Some who say their relatives were murdered by Samayoa and his unit also live in the Greater Providence area. Samayoa and his wife fled Guatemala in the early ...

Discoveries from a 3,000-year-old Mayan site in Guatemala reveal that ancient people have raised and traded dogs for food and ceremonial purposes. Archeologists found and examined bones as well as the teeth of cats and dogs in the Ceibal mining site that existed in 700 to 350 B.C.. The purpose of the ...

A new chemical analysis of animal bones found in a 3,000-year-old city in modern-day Guatemala provides the earliest picture yet of how the Mesoamerican civilization -- that stretched across ... Two of the dogs tested were found to be imported from the Guatemalan highlands, roughly 100 miles away.

The images revealed that the Mayans altered the landscape in a much broader way than previously thought; in some areas, 95 percent of available land was cultivated. "Their agriculture is much more intensive and therefore sustainable than we thought, and they were cultivating every inch of the land," said ...