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 ...

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 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 ...

Guatemala’s counterinsurgency campaign led to the death of over 200,000 people, 83% of whom were indigenous Maya, according to a United Nations-backed truth commission in 1999.

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.