guatemalan civil war
'We Sent a Man to His Death': How the British Army Betrayed Its Own Informant to a Murderous Junta
After VICE investigated the British army's cooperation with a genocidal Guatemalan regime at the height of its civil war, an ex-spy has come forward with shocking allegations.
I Got Drunk and Joined Guatemala’s Wasted Horse Race
Every year, the Mayan villagers in Todos Santos throw a wild, week-long rager ending in a drunken—sometimes deadly—horse race.
I Got Drunk and Cheated Death in a Ceremonial Horse Race
For a week each year, the Mayan villagers of Todos Santos, Guatemala, get wasted and race horses during their Skach Koyl festival. Sometimes people fall, sometimes people die. I decided to join them.
Former Dictator of Guatemala Ruled Mentally Unfit to Face Retrial for War Crimes
Efrain Rios Montt had already been convicted in 2013 of ordering the brutal slaughter of indigenous Guatemalans in the military's scorched earth counterinsurgency campaigns between 1982 and 1983.
A Funeral for Manuel, 32 Years After the Guatemalan Massacre That Killed Him
On May 14, 1982, during the height of Guatemala's civil war, Carmen Sánchez Chen was bathing in the Chixoy River when the military attacked, taking her three-year-old son, Manuel. Decades later, Manuel's remains were exhumed from a mass grave, allowing...