GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Government-backed experts say former Guatemalan dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt is mentally incompetent, potentially derailing a trial on human rights charges. The July 1 opinion ...

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 ...

A federal court in Guatemala has thrown out the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, which had been called a breakthrough in the region's human rights. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports ...

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In Guatemala, voters have rejected an attempt by former military dictator Rios Montt to become president. In the first round of voting, Montt received less than 20 percent of the vote. A run-off will ...

Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role The history of American support for Guatemala’s military went unacknowledged during the genocide trial of the former dictator Gen. Efraín ...

One of his lawyers, Luis Rosales, told reporters that Rios Montt "died in his home, with the love of his family and a clear conscience." p pulse Follow Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala with an ...

Nicholas Casey was a foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal covering the politics and economics of the Middle East. Frailty of Guatemala Institutions Seen in Former Dictator's Case A ...

For Sebastian Quinac the trial of Guatemala's former dictator accused of genocide will shed light on a very dark chapter in his country's past. But he remains cautiously optimistic, said the Tucson ...

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov. 8 -- A Guatemalan court has left former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt off a list of former senior officials to be arrested and deported to Spain to face charges stemming from war ...