The Dos Erres massacre in 1982 was one of the worst mass killings during the Guatemalan civil war. Over three days a group of seventeen elite soldiers ransacked a village and callously murdered 251 men, women, and children. Some bodies were ditched in...

Four decapitated heads were found in prominent areas of the capital Thursday in what police said were likely revenge killings in response to a crackdown on organized crime. The heads were discovered at the main door of the congressional building, near...

Stripped naked to the waist, she begs for mercy as she is savagely beaten by a lynch mob in the middle of the street. Alejandra Maria Torres was part of an armed gang that tried to rob bus passengers in Guatemala City. But as she tried to escape the...