Former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s genocide trial will restart from zero after being separated from a similar case against his spy chief, a lawyer said Friday. A linked trial of ...

Guatemala’s ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt was hauled to court on a stretcher Monday to attend his retrial on genocide charges before proceedings were halted by a motion to change judges. The ...

Ixil Indigenous Jacinta Ceto, survivor of the Guatemalan civil war, attends the hearing against the retired general Benedicto Lucas Garcia at a court in Guatemala City (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP) ...

(CNN) — Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. A three-judge panel issued the verdict Friday, ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt put in a psychiatric hospital for nine days’ observation on Thursday, once again delaying his retrial on genocide ...