Topic: Guatemala

6,060 Years in Prison Is the Norm for Some Guatemalan War Criminals

AP

Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force dubbed the "killing machine," will have to live to be 6,114-years-old if he wants to survive the 6,060-year prison sentence he was handed on Monday for his role as in the 1982 Guatemalan Dos Erres massacre

By Adam Martin

Aug 19, 2011

Guatemalan Court Order Rattles Foreign Adoption Community

A Guatemalan mother has been reunited with her daughter who was kidnapped and adopted in the U.S.

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