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 ...

Guatemala’s Mayan people accused the government and tour groups on Wednesday of perpetuating the myth that their calendar foresees the imminent end of the world for monetary gain. “We are ...

Our wider understanding of the Mayan pantheon, however, is limited, because when Spanish conquistadors arrived in modern-day Guatemala they destroyed written references to indigenous deities.

After the 36-year civil war in Guatemala, land reform and equal rights have been slow to come for the Indigenous Mayan people. Now 25 years after the peace accords, some of the alleged ...

CHICUZ, Guatemala (Reuters) – Matilde Ical Chen was toasting tortillas over a wood fire for the midday meal when the landslide ripped through the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous village of Queja ...

To the large Guatemalan Mayan community in Palm Beach County, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt was their Osama bin Laden. “He was the biggest villain of them all,” said Maria Mendez of the Guatemalan ...

As our bus slowed at the entrance to a huge jungle park containing the Maya ruins of Tikal, one of Guatemala`s most spectacular attractions for tourists and archeologists, a small group of ...

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

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.

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.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – A group of Guatemalan musicians is on a mission to breathe life into a pre-Columbian language and heritage through a thoroughly modern genre: hip-hop. Calling themselves ...