President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused ...

For much of the 20th century, the C.I.A. devised plots to overthrow governments, kill high-profile leaders or arm dissident ...

Prosecutors said the soldier, Santos López Alonzo, 66, had participated in the killings of nearly all of the men, women and children in the farming village of Dos ...

The death toll from torrential downpours unleashed by storm Eta leapt on Friday as Guatemalan soldiers reached a mountain village where around 100 people were killed by a landslide, adding to dozens ...

The remnants of Hurricane Eta unleashed torrential rains and catastrophic flooding on Central America, with fatalities sharply up on Thursday mostly because of mudslides as streets turned into rivers ...