Department of Homeland Security leaders have persuaded the Guatemalans to launch the program using established routes to the international airport at Guatemala City, not the Petén jungle, as the ...

The ancient city named “Los Abuelos” – Spanish for “The Grandparents” – once stood about 21km from the archaeological site of Uaxactun in Guatemala’s northern Peten department, the ...

(CERIGUA/IFEX) – The body of Miguel Ángel Amaya Pérez, 23, a recently-hired announcer for Sabana radio station, was found in the town of Santa Elena, a municipality in the Petén department, 515 ...

In April, scientists discovered a 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture at Tikal, elsewhere in the Peten department.. That find was interpreted as proof of ties between ...

The city once stood around 21 kilometres (14 miles) from the archaeological site of Uaxactun in Guatemala’s northern Petén department. It dates back to the "Middle Preclassic" period, ...

Investigadores del Comando Antisecuestros de la @PNCdeGuatemala, logran la liberación de una ciudadana extranjera, que fue privada de su libertad en la aldea Jobompiche, de San José Peten. pic ...

In Guatemala’s northern Petén department, May 14, 2011, felt a lot like December 6, 1982. In May, on the Los Cocos ranch near La Libertad,... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

Archaeologists unearthed Los Abuelos, aka "The Grandparents," a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala, complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments that reveal new traces of the ancient ...

The city named "Los Abuelos," Spanish for "The Grandparents," once stood some 21 kilometers (13 miles) from the important archaeological site of Uaxactun, in Guatemala's northern Peten department ...

According to authorities in charge of the operations, the two departments that saw the largest number of firearms seized were Guatemala’s northernmost Petén department and southern Escuintla ...

The palace shares some characteristics with Maya remains found in the Petén Department of Guatemala, Hernández said. "We propose that an important migration from that site founded Kabah ...