GUATEMALA CITY( Reuters)-Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial on Wednesday on charges of raping 36 women from the indigenous Achi group from 1981 to 1985 during the Central American country's decades-long civil war. The paramilitary Civil Self-Defense Patrols( PACs) were created by the Guatemalan army during the conflict to control the indigenous population.... She was speaking in response to a request of one of the defense attorneys that the hearing be delayed for another week.

CHICAMáN, Guatemala — The missing family on Eriberto Pop’s list had to be around here, he thought.He had spent eight hours in a car and several more on a motorcycle to get to this remote area in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.... arrow-right He stuffed the U.S. government records in his backpack.... Two hundred seventy-five of them are still missing. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Most of their children remain in the United States with relatives or foster families....