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The family had difficulty paying for the younger children's schooling. [1] According to Marie-Claire, "she saw migrating to the United States as her only hope." [5] An aunt living in Atlanta offered to loan her the $11,000 she needed to get to the US. [5]
The Dos Erres massacre of 6 December 1982 took place in Dos Erres, a small village in the municipality of La Libertad, in the northern Petén department of Guatemala.The name of the village, occasionally given as "Las Dos Erres", literally means "two Rs", originating from two brothers called Ruano who received the original land grant.
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, [3] or the Silent Holocaust [5] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday convicted seven soldiers for their roles in the killing of six Indigenous protesters in 2012, while a colonel and another soldier were acquitted. More than a decade ...
Guatemalan authorities raided the offices of the NGO Save the Children on Thursday citing complaints over the treatment of Guatemalan children in Texas, the country’s Public Prosecutor told CNN.
The bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian were found on 22 January 2006 in the master bedroom of the family's rented home, where they had been living for ten days. Autopsy results showed that Rachel died of a gunshot wound to the head and Lillian of a gunshot wound to the torso. [1]
Dianna Mae Ortiz (September 2, 1958 – February 19, 2021) was an American Roman Catholic sister of the Ursuline order.While serving as a missionary in Guatemala, during its civil war, she was abducted on November 2, 1989 by members of the Guatemalan military, detained, raped, and tortured for 24 hours before being released.
Guatemalans in Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Raleigh, N.C., and other locations have until March 25 to register to vote in the June 25 presidential election.