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• Indigenous activist murdered after exposing palm oil ‘ecocide’

  By Richard Arghiris on September 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  On 18 September 2015, one day after the Reforestadora Palma de Petén S.A. (REPSA) palm oil factory was ordered closed for its contamination of the Pasíon River, an indigenous activist, Rigoberto Lima Choc, 28, was murdered outside a courthouse in… Read More ›

• Top genocide lawyer assassinated in Guatemala City

  By Richard Arghiris on June 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The chief lawyer of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was gunned down in broad daylight last Wednesday 3 June. Francisco Palomo Tejada, 63, was driving home on a lunch break when two men on a red motorcycle pulled alongside his… Read More ›