Tag: Santos Lopez

Ex-Guatemalan soldier gets 5,160 years’ prison for civil war massacre

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 201 peasants during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation’s civil war. The court found Santos Lopez “responsible as author” of 171 of the killings and sentenced him to 30 years for each, or 5,130 years in total. He received an additional 30 years linked to the killing of […]