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Guatemala launches elite Kaibiles after Mexican cartel incursion leaves communities terrified and soldiers wounded

Guatemala faced a serious security threat when armed groups from Mexico crossed its northern border and attacked rural communities. The incidents occurred on December 8, when cartel gunmen entered ...
The Eagle

Ten years after Guatemala's war, victims' families might get answers

GUATEMALA CITY - During the 10 years since the end of a civil war that took 200,000 Guatemalan lives, the survivors have faced a recurring frustration: A family comes forward asking for ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Guatemala files complaints over civil-war offenses

GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala's government filed 3,350 criminal complaints yesterday accusing former soldiers, paramilitaries and others of human-rights violations against more than 5,000 civilians ...
The Atlantic

6,060 Years in Prison Is the Norm for Some Guatemalan War Criminals

Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force dubbed the "killing machine," will have to live to be 6,114-years-old if he wants to survive the 6,060-year prison sentence ...