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Guatemala Top Three Presidential Candidates May All Be Banned

14/05/2019

Surely This Could Only Happen In Guatemala? In what would appear to be a plot for a B Movie the constitutional court of Guatemala may be about to bar the top three candidates from running in the Presidential Elections scheduled for 16th June. It has already barred one of the frontrunners Zury Ríos, the daughter…

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Some Justice Finally for the 1982 Dos Erres Massacre

22/11/2018

Craig Taylor

In one of the darker episodes in the Guatemalan civil war, Santos López a member of a US-trained counter-insurgency force “the Kaibiles” exacted a terrible revenge on a village suspected of being sympathetic to the Mayan rebels. Despite thoroughly searching the village and finding nothing incriminating the team proceeded to torture, rape and then murder practically…