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• Human Rights violations in Ixquisis end in the murder of Sebastian Alonso Juan

  By kevodell on May 16, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Región de Ixquisis – Foto ACOGUATE This article was published on the website of ACOGUATE in February 2017 and was translated by Lazara Morgan. The murder of Sebastian Alonso Juan took place during a peaceful demonstration on the 17th January… Read More ›

• Rodrigo Tot wins Goldman Environmental Prize for land-title quest

  By kevodell on May 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Rodrigo Tot (Goldman Environmental Prize) Rodrigo Tot, an indigenous leader in Guatemala’s Agua Caliente, led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q’eqchi people and kept environmentally destructive nickel mining… Read More ›

• El Oriente

  By kevodell on May 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala’s El Oriente (Eastern land) is a region which has systematically been left aside by the state’s political and economic system. The population’s suffering is visible as they have one of the highest levels of malnutrition in the country. It… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Saving Indigenous Radio

  By kevodell on April 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  This short video is from ‘Amplifying Indigenous Voices: Cultural Survival’s Community Media Program’. Community radio has been a vital presence in Indigenous communities in Guatemala since the 1960s. Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala rely on community radio to keep their cultures,… Read More ›

• Ríos Montt to Face Second Genocide Trial for the Dos Erres Massacre

  By kevodell on April 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  A judge in Guatemala has determined that there is sufficient evidence to send former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to trial for the case of the Las Dos Erres massacre. This is the second trial Ríos Montt will face in… Read More ›

• Human Rights Groups to Inter-American Court: Impunity is Alive and Well in Guatemala

  By kevodell on April 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  President Jimmy Morales invited the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to conduct its 57th session in Guatemala City, perhaps hoping to repair the country’s tattered relationship with the international organization. However, in extending this invitation, he may not have expected… Read More ›

• CREOMPAZ: The largest case of forced disappearance in Latin America

  By kevodell on March 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  With the news that an arrest warrant has been issued for Congressman Edgar Justino Ovalle, in connection with the CREOMPAZ case, it’s a good idea to recap the case in question, from a report by NISGUA. On January 6, 2016,… Read More ›

• CREOMPAZ Case: Fears that Congressman Ovalle has Fled

  By kevodell on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Attorney General, Thelma Aldana, issued an arrest warrant for Congressman Edgar Justino Ovalle, in connection with the CREOMPAZ case, writes Jo-Marie Burt in the International Justice Monitor website. It is suspected he has fled the country. Ovalle is… Read More ›

• Hell is not a Metaphor for this Place

  By kevodell on March 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  ‘Children killed by a disastrous state – we will not forget them’ “This is one of those columns that should never have to be written because the deaths of 40 children in a ‘safe’ Home, in the charge of the… Read More ›

• Indigenous communities bring Guatemala to a standstill as Guatemalan congress refuses to recognise indigenous justice

  By kevodell on February 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo by Anna Watts Indigenous communities across Guatemala came together to bring the country to a standstill, blockading major crossroads and highways. This nationwide peaceful demonstration was protesting against the Guatemalan congress’s rejection of a constitutional reform that would legally… Read More ›