Sources: The Guardian
Rafael Curruchiche, a prosecutor in the Guatemalan attorney general's office, accuses the Organization of American States and the European Union of interference in the election and says that around a thousand people denounced irregularities in electoral process. 2023-09-29
U.S. President Joe Biden calls the Russian war in Ukraine a "genocide". 2022-04-12
Two statues of Christopher Columbus are removed from Chicago's Grant Park and Arrigo Park, in the city's Little Italy. Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said these temporary removals are a response to demonstrations that became unsafe for both protesters and police. Injuries and arrests resulted when, on July 17, police clashed with protesters who attempted to topple the Grant Park statue. Activists say that monuments of Columbus, blamed for the genocide and exploitation of the Americas' Indigenous people, should not be on public display. Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police criticized these removals. 2020-07-24
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
A fire breaks out at an orphanage in San José Pinula, Guatemala after students protesting conditions including alleged sexual and physical abuse set fire to their bedding, killing at least 19 children. 2017-03-8
The death toll from the landslides in Guatemala rises to 253 with 374 people still missing. 2015-10-9
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
The Guatemalan military declares a state of siege in the department of Alta Verapaz to reclaim control of cities controlled by the Los Zetas Mexican drug gang. 2010-12-19
At least three people die, at least four others are missing, a 15-day state of calamity is declared and the international airport is shut down due to the eruption of the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala. 2010-05-28