Maya

Waves of evictions and the criminalization of Q'eqchi' Maya communities propel rural poverty and forced migration.

Ten years after the Alaska Massacre of the K'iche' people in Totonicapán, Guatemala, the families of the victims tell their stories.

A diez años de la Masacre de Alaska del pueblo k'iche' en Totonicapán, Guatemala, las familias de las víctimas cuentan sus historias.

NATIONALISTS MAY FOCUS ON CULTURE rather than economic or political issues for tactical reasons. But it is not tactics that

ONE WOULD HARDLY HAVE EXPECTED Maya self-determination to be the rallying cry to rise out of the ashes of Guatemala's

RURAL UPHEAVAL AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE MAYA While Guatemala's political and economic changes have had profound effects on indigenous

What has the recent signing of the Peace Accords between the government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) guerrilla

After more than 20 years of waiting, communities in the highlands of Guatemala are finally able to bury their loved ones—victims of some of the most brutal violence of the country's 36-year civil war. After an arduous process of gathering testimonies, finding the mass graves, and exhuming the bodies, villagers hope the dead will finally be able to rest in peace.

Portraits taken during the inhumation process described in "The Martyrs are Home." The people pictured reside in the communities of Juá, Chel and Xaxmoxan, in the municipality of Chajul. The region is predominantly inhabited by the Ixil Mayan ethnic group.

Indigenous forms of imparting justice in Guatemala have become a point of controversy between Mayan communities and the government. This article is the first of three in-depth reports by Lucía Escobar into Mayan community justice, its norms, its values, and its controversies.