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 later, Wednesday's ruling was seen as partial justice by family members of the victims of what Guatemalans describe as the first state massacre to occur since the nation's bloody civil war ended in the '90s. On Oct. 4, 2012, hundreds of members of the Indigenous organization 48 Cantones of Totonicapan blocked a section of the Pan-American Highway, protesting high electricity costs and the closure of a teacher's college.
After spending the night in a tent in Honduras, the wife of Vice President Al Gore made a plea for donations and aid to Central America, which has just begun.
Guatemala City, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Guatemalans commemorate on Friday the legacy of the 1944 October Revolution, with initiatives to back protests calling for the Attorney General Consuelo Porras’ resignation.
Guatemala’s protest movement goes national; Latin America’s meddlesome ex-presidents; U.S. border crisis and geopolitical turmoil are taking the pressure off Maduro.