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A Guatemalan court on Wednesday convicted seven soldiers for their roles in the killing of six Indigenous protesters in 2012, while a colonel and another soldier were acquitted. More than a decade later, Wednesday's ruling was seen as partial justice by family members of the victims of what Guatemalans describe as the first state massacre to occur since the nation's bloody civil war ended in the '90s. On Oct. 4, 2012, hundreds of members of the Indigenous organization 48 Cantones of Totonicapan blocked a section of the Pan-American Highway, protesting high electricity costs an...

A Guatemalan court acquitted an army chief of extrajudicial execution charges over the 2012 deaths of 6 indigenous people during a protest.

Judicial reforms look to erode—not consolidate—democracy; Peruvian guns fuel Ecuador’s violence; and Arévalo delivers a technocratic, centrist cabinet

Indigenous communities play a critical role in the 'REDD+' strategy that sells emission reductions for credits to raise money for forest protection.

This is the second article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One. Part Three, Part Four and Part Five will be published later this month. SEN MONOROM, Cambodia — Tucked away in a little-visited corner of eastern Cambodia is a tiny “sea of forest” that undulates near […]