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Rigoberta Menchu, a Nobel Peace prize winner, attends a religious Mayan ceremony outside the Supreme Court before the start of a trial connected to the death of her father in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. Former police chief Pedro Garcia Arredondo is going on trial in connection with the death of Menchu's father, and 36 more people, who died on Jan. 31 in 1980 during an attack by alleged government agents. The attackers burned down the Spanish embassy in Guatemala where Mayan peasants were occupying in protest. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Guatemala ex-police on trial in 1980 embassy fire

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A resident pauses to look at a taped off area, where a body lies wrapped in a black bag, in Pajoques, Guatemala, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. An argument over plans to build a factory and highway in the village west of Guatemala City provoked a violent clash late Friday that has left at least six people dead and dozens of others seriously wounded. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Guatemala clash over development plans kills 8

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Former Guatemalan Army Captain Byron Lima Oliva, center, sentenced in 2006 to 20 years in jail for the 1998 slaying of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi, is escorted by police agents as he arrives to a courtroom in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Prosecutors said that Lima built an illicit business empire in prison by extorting money from other inmates in return for favors like allowing prohibited cellphones, and has been charged with money laundering and organized crime. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
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Guatemala bishop’s killer ran alleged jail empire

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Victims of 1982 Guatemala massacre laid to rest
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Victims of 1982 Guatemala massacre laid to rest

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In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, Elsa Ramirez, 27, deported a day earlier from the United States, stands just inside the doorway of her mother's home, in Tocoa, Honduras. Ramirez had heard that mothers traveling to the U.S. with children would be allowed to stay if they made it across the border, so she took off for the north with her 8-year-old daughter, Sandra, and 5-year-old son, Cesar, named for his dead father. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Honduran families deported back to a bleak future

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Immigration and Custom officials standby as a woman and child, who were deported from the United States, deplane at the San Pedro Sula airport, in Honduras, Friday, July 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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59 migrants deported from US arrive in Honduras

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Neighbors hold bouquets of Hydrangeas during the burial service of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, in San Jose Las Flores, Guatemala, Saturday, July 12, 2014. The 15-year-old Guatemalan migrant was buried in his hometown Saturday, nearly a month after he became a symbol of the perils facing unaccompanied children who have been flooding illegally into the U.S. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Migrant boy buried in Guatemala hometown

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This photo taken through a chain-linked fence, shows Francisco Ramos, wearing a black hat, surrounded by immigration officials, as he identifies the body of his son, whose decomposed body was found in the Texas desert, in Guatemala City, Friday, July 11, 2014. The remains of Gilberto Francisco Ramos , the 15 year old boy who died in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, trying to reach the United States alone, was delivered to his family on Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Migrant boy’s body arrives back in Guatemala

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Cipriana Juarez Diaz, mother of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, listens to her husband talk, during an interview at their home in San Jose Las Flores, in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains of Guatemala, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Juarez Diaz said that she begged her son not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest cinder block- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Guatemalan mountains. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
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Guatemalan boy left for better life, died alone

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Dead migrant boy’s mom begged him not to make trek
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Dead migrant boy’s mom begged him not to make trek

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