SAN ANTONIO - Covering immigration, I have learned a lot about the Mayan Indians from Guatemala who came to the U.S. as migrants. Many of their stories are sad, but 17-year-old Karina's is one of the ...

A historic trial is taking place in Guatemala. For the first time, according to rights activists, the country is prosecuting military officials for sexual violence committed during the Central ...

MEXICO CITY — A city in southern Mexico agreed Wednesday to consider a petition by Mayan Indians to remove a recently installed monument to the Spanish conquistadores who led the bloody conquest of ...

When Víctor Montejo, a respected anthropologist and writer, became the first Mayan Indian to head Guatemala’s Peace Secretariat, he knew there were many who wanted to see him fail -- including some of ...

Starting around 1989, hundreds of Guatemalan laborers, almost all Highland Maya Indians, began migrating to the town of Morganton, N.C., to fill a chronic labor shortage at Case Farms, a local poultry ...