Guatemala’s poor indigenous people. After centuries of persecution, plight of indigenous people remain largely unchanged. Published On 19 Apr 2010 19 Apr 2010.

Widespread lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services puts the health and other rights of ...

Six in 10 Guatemalans live in poverty, and more than 50% of the country's poor are indigenous people, according to the World Bank. Twenty percent of Guatemala's population lives in extreme poverty.

Guatemala’s indigenous people grow impatient with their champion ... They make up 44% of the population and live largely in poverty. More than half have homes that lack indoor plumbing.

Tucsonan Mary Jane Henley, a member of the board of directors for Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala, is making customized masks to benefit the nonprofit organization’s COVID-19 Crisis Relief Fund.

The absurdity of sanctioning poor people in Venezuela but not criminals in Guatemala is an artifact of old-fashioned Cold War-era thinking at the U.S. State Department.

Poverty, inequality and corruption. Guatemala has a population of more than 17 million people, and more than half of them live below the national poverty line, according to the World Bank. To survive, ...

People are scared of organizing because if they do, they get tagged as thieves, terrorists, criminals. PERALTA: Since 2018, she says, about 27 Indigenous activists have been murdered here. As she ...

Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the U.S. to accept asylum-seekers from other countries. U.S.

Qʼeqchiʼ people are also leaving their homelands due to extreme poverty and famine linked to climate change, which has affected Qʼeqchiʼ communities who rely on subsistence farming, Woodham said.