GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Thousands of indigenous farmers have finished an eight-day march to Guatemala’s capital to protest government-backed land seizures by large landowners. A government spokesman ...

Teresa Muñoz was riding her motorbike along her regular delivery route on a winding Guatemala road, carrying the homemade cheese she sold for a living, when she saw in her rearview mirror one of the ...

Moises Morales, president of the Asociacion El Amanecer, says farmlands currently used for growing food crops are being converted to grow sugar for biofuels and export. Photo by Juan Manuel ...

To Guatemala’s backlands, torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond ...

POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA—Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 ...

Survivors of the devastating mudslide that buried a community outside of Guatemala City on Oct. 1 could be relocated to nearby land expropriated from a notorious alleged drug trafficker. Guatemalan ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors have arrested 14 people who allegedly forced poor farmers to sell their land at cut-rate prices. At least 28 farms were “bought” by gangsters who sometimes ...

Challenges to good governance in Latin America are historically linked to inequitable land distribution, cumbersome land tenure processes and conflicting land-use priorities. The inability of ...

Several delegates from the Redlands Sister Cities Association left early this evening for Guatemala, where they hope to establish their next Spanish-speaking sister city site. It’s welcome news to ...