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• GHRC – Recent Developments in Justice and Human Rights

  By kevodell on February 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Tensions are rising in Guatemala as key election processes get underway. President Bernardo Arévalo has instituted a state of siege to combat gang-related violence that experts say appears to be aimed at destabilizing his government. The months ahead may be… Read More ›

• Water Defenders Celebrate Ruling Against U.S. Gold Company’s Claim

  By kevodell on January 31, 2026 • ( 0 )

  A major victory against an exploitative corporate lawsuit in Guatemala. Jen Moore wrote, recently, on the website of the Institute for Policy Studies about the victory celebrated by the Resistencia Pacifica La Puya with the ruling by an arbitration panel… Read More ›

• Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street

  By kevodell on January 25, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Roman Gressier, Yuliana Ramazzini and Carlos Barrera write in El Faro English on the startling developments that have overtaken the Government of Bernardo Arévalo at the beginning of his third term. The events started off as a series of gang-related… Read More ›

• La Puya: Yes to Life, No to Mining

  By kevodell on January 2, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Statement from the Peaceful Resistance La Puya to the Guatemalan and International Community in response to the decision of the International Arbitration Tribunal (CIADI) in KCA v. Guatemala The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) has posted… Read More ›

• GHRC – El Quetzal (Winter 2025)

  By kevodell on December 23, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The Winter 2025 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. In it, they explore the implications of a co-opted justice system and the necessity of change, sharing the views of the Indigenous… Read More ›

• Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years For the First Light

  By kevodell on December 18, 2025 • ( 1 )

  El Faro English presented an English version of a piece by Edward Grattan relating to the tiral and sentencing of those found responsible for the deaths of the 41 young girls in the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de… Read More ›

• Regina José Galindo, Performance Artist: “In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth”

  By kevodell on December 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  She walked barefoot, leaving footprints of human blood outside the Constitutional Court. She underwent surgery to reconstruct her hymen and become a virgin again. She had a doctor injected her in the mouth with anesthesia as she attempted to read… Read More ›

• Military Diary Case: “Every judicial delay prolongs the never-ending grief”

  By kevodell on December 7, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Andrea Godínez has written on Agencia Ocote about the threats to the judicial process in the Military Diary case and the pain being felt by family members of the those forcibly disappeared by the Guatemala state because of these threats…. Read More ›

• The Books the CIA Burned in Guatemala

  By kevodell on November 30, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Burning books, part of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, had strong support from local allies. Guatemala, after the fall of Jacobo Árbenz in 1954, points to a common practice in Central America: the violent repression of the free… Read More ›

• Podcast: Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis

  By kevodell on November 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala’s former minister of governance resigns and leaves the country after the public learns of the escape from prison of twenty Barrio 18 (18th Street) gang members. Gabriel Labrador and Roman Gressier presented a podcast on El Faro English highlighting… Read More ›