Forty-five percent of the Guatemalan population is Mayan according to official figures, probably more. The 1996 Peace Accords recognize four peoples—Maya, Xinca, Garifuna and Mestizo—in the ...

She came to the U.S. from Suchitepéquez, a Guatemalan state in which 38% of 555,000 people are Mayans, and more than 20,000 speak Kaqchikel, according to Guatemala’s National Statistics Institute.

It’s estimated that 17 out of 30-plus people arrested in New Bedford during ICE’s Operation Patriot are Guatemalans with ...

The Guatemalan-Maya Center said there's been a surge of people needing help because they are fearful of the state's new immigration legislation, SB1718, which take effect July 1.

Blanco said the Guatemalan-Maya Center provides migrants with things like food, education programs, and legal assistance. She said many people lately have not been shy about expressing their ...

The Guatemalan-Maya Center celebrated the grand opening of their new center and provided moral support to immigrants who are fearful of SB1718, a new state law targeting undocumented people.

PERALTA: Efrain Rios Montt was a military dictator in the '80s, and in 2013, he was convicted of genocide against the Mayan people in these same lands. So for 10 minutes, the man on stage cajoles ...

But her native language is Qʼeqchiʼ, an indigenous Mayan language primarily spoken by 900,000 to 1.3 million people in Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and the U.S.

Guatemalan refugee turned activist helps Oregon immigrants ... mass “disappearances” and forced displacements that a United Nations-sponsored report called a genocide against the Mayan people.