A prison riot between rival gangs in Guatemala has left seven prisoners dead – six of them beheaded.

After four years of hiding, former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo has been extradited from México to face charges of corruption.

Pedro Zapeta, a Guatemalan man who had $49,000 in cash confiscated by federal authorities, has won an appeal to have some of his money returned. In 2005, Zapeta was detained by Florida airport officials for not declaring $59,000 in cash – the legal limit is $10,000 – he planned to take to Guatemala. According to Zapeta's lawyer, the dishwasher should have been fined $5,000, not $49,000.

Guatemalan officials announced they have annulled 15 adoptions to the U.S. due to "irregularities," including fraud and kidnapping. They have reviewed 160 cases out of nearly 2,300 which were suspended earlier this year.

Guatemala has suspended the adoption of over 2,000 children to make sure they are being put up for adoption by their birth parents. Last year, 5,000 children were adopted from Guatemala, the majority by American parents.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced that the country's military archives will be opened to the public. An estimated 250,000 civilians were killed or disappeared in Guatemala's 36-year civil war which ended a over decade ago.

When they aren't being shot down, spy satellites are helping archeologists and NASA scientists discover ancient Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan jungle.

Guatemalan lawmakers are changing previously lax adoption rules which led to a $100 million-a-year industry. According to estimates, one out of every 100 Guatemalan kids grow up as the adopted child of an American family.

Businessman Álvaro Colom defeated former army general Otto Pérez Molina to win Guatemala's presidency in a campaign that was largely a referendum on crime and security.