Sources: The Guardian
Vladimir Putin claims that a "genocide" is occurring in Eastern Ukraine. 2022-02-15
The United States Department of Justice announces that criminal charges will be brought against 700 gang members in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for human trafficking. 2020-11-27
Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts, leaving at least 62 people dead, 300 others injured, and forces the closure of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City. 2018-06-3
The trial of Guatemalan ex-ruler Efraín Ríos Montt, accused of genocide during the civil war in the 1980s, ends abruptly with the defendant's death. 2018-04-1
Guatemala arrests 11 in a public hospital, medicine-buying kickback scheme. Two others remain at large, including Gustavo Alejos Cambara, the former private secretary to ex-President Álvaro Colom. A U.N. commission set up to tackle criminal networks in Guatemala participated in the investigation. 2015-10-27
Julio Suárez, the head of the Guatemalan Central Bank, is arrested together with the head of the Social Security Administration on corruption charges. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150520-guatemalan-central-bank-social-security-chiefs-arrested?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-05-20&dlvrit=65413 (AFP via France 24)]date=August 2019 2015-05-20
Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturns a genocide conviction against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt due to a dispute over jurisdiction. 2013-05-20
A Guatemala court finds former military leader Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentences him to 80 years in prison. 2013-05-10
France's National Assembly votes in favour of a bill criminalising any denial that the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the 1910s was genocide. 2011-12-22
A "state of siege" is declared in northern Guatemala after a massacre is committed by The "Zetas" Drug Cartel. 2011-05-17