The latest Bulletin from PBI Guatemala features several articles as well as an update on their work.
Stolen Chilhood – For some years now, walking through the streets of the historic center of Guatemala City, we are astonished by the hundreds of photographs that paper some of its walls. They are the faces of people who disappeared during Guatemala’s Internal Armed Conflict (IAC), lasting over three decades, and ending with the signing of the Peace Accords in December 1996. More recently, these have been accompanied by images of young people carrying photographs of themselves as children or babies and who are now looking for their families.
Journey to the green desert – We carried out an observation mission to the Retalhuleu and Champerico municipalities in March 2022, accompanying defenders from the Community Council of Retalhuleu (CCR) and the National Network for the Defense of Food Sovereignty of Guatemala (REDSAG). During the mission we verified the negative impacts that sugarcane plantations and other extractive projects are having on the health, food and environment of these communities. They also shared their appeals to the relevant Guatemalan authorities, the sugar mills and other companies operating in the area with us.
Biodiversity and Ancestral Knowledge Law Initiative – Article 1: The objective of the present law is to guarantee the respect, recognition, conservation and protection of the ancestral indigenous and peasant knowledge and practices, as well as the biological diversity in their territories, their ecological balance and conviviality with the indivisuals, peoples, indigenous and peasant communities.
You can read the full bulletin here, “We are the seeds that the State tried to kill, but now we bloom in the morning light”.
The version in Spanish is available here, “Somos las semillas que el Estado intentó matar, pero ahora florecemos a la luz de la mañana”.
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