National
NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
World May 26, 2013
Guatemala extradites ex-president to U.S.
Guatemala extradited former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States on Friday to face charges of laundering $70 million of swindled government funds through U.S. banks. Portillo, president from 2000 to 2004, thus becomes the first former Latin American leader ever to be extradited ...
World May 22, 2013
Guatemalan dictator to get retrial
Guatemala’s top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered Monday that his trial be restarted, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader. Constitutional ...
Global-related May 17, 2013
Rios Montt's conviction will change Guatemala
by Cesar Chelala
The conviction of Guatemala's former de facto president, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, is the most significant human rights event in that country's recent history.
World | Focus May 12, 2013
Guatemala strongman presided over death
Efrain Rios Montt ruled as Guatemala’s dictator, served as president of Congress, preached as an evangelical pastor and now, at 86, has become the first Latin American strongman to stand trial and be convicted on genocide charges in his own country. Enigmatic, with a ...