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• Guatemala Takes a Hard Line Against Migrants—With US Support

  By kevodell on February 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Long before Trump, Washington was exporting control of migratory routes, along with repressive policing, to Mexico and Central America. Jeff Abbott writes in The Nation magazine about the response of Guatemalan authorities to the recent ‘caravan’ of Honduran refugees and… Read More ›

• David vs Goliath in Guatemala: how palm oil companies encroach on indigenous land

  By kevodell on February 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  A community in northern Guatemala is fighting against the force of nature and against the expansion of palm oil. Jody García writes in Climate Tracker about a community that is increasingly trapped, literally, by the effects of climate change, on… Read More ›

• Humberto Ak’abal in Scotland

  By kevodell on February 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In 2010, a modest Scottish publisher, Kettillonia, published a book of poetry, Drum of Stone, by celebrated Guatemalan Maya Kʼicheʼ poet Humberto Ak’abal, who sadly passed away just two years ago. The book presents poems in K’iche’, translated into English,… Read More ›

• 13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say

  By kevodell on February 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Kate Linthicum and Jeff Abbott write a very sad story in the Los Angeles Times, highlighting the frightening dangers posed to migrants heading north, through extremely hostile territory, to the United States. As 15-year-old Robelson Isidro left Guatemala this month,… Read More ›

• Guatemala Cross-Border Crime and Corruption Investigation

  By kevodell on February 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  InSight Crime made a presentation recently regarding an investigation into cross-border crime and corruption in Guatemala. Drug trafficking has been reconfigured in Guatemala. The large clans that traditionally dominated the business have broken up. Now the main actors are small… Read More ›

• Growing concerns regarding the situation of women human rights defenders in the northeast of Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Front Line Defenders recently made their concerns known about the situation of women human rights defenders in Guatemala and spoke about the challenges facing both Lourdes Haquelina Gómez Willis and Delia Adelina Leal Mollinedo. Front Line Defenders is deeply concerned… Read More ›

• Political Elites Seek Again to Infiltrate Guatemala’s High Court

  By kevodell on January 31, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Héctor Silva Ávalos has written an article, in InSight Crime, highlighting the current issue of the election of Mynor Moto to the Constitutional Court and his swearing in by Congress in spite of legal challenges against him. The new US… Read More ›

• Guatemala Congress Ignores Integrity and Transparency

  By kevodell on January 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Congress, no friend of integrity, transparency nor the rule of law, has again chosen to ignore a ruling of the Constitutional Court in swearing in a new justice to that same Court. The Guatemalan Bar and Notaries Association… Read More ›

• Guatemala – #NiUnaMenos

  By kevodell on January 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday, 22nd January, it was reported that five women were murdered in Guatemala. Incredibly, this brings to 28, the number for January, and nothing is being done by the State to address this. Outrage has been expressed across twitter in… Read More ›

• No Human Being Is Illegal

  By kevodell on January 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Convergencia por los Derechos Humanos (The Human Rights ‘Meeting Point’) issued a statement, published by UDEFEGUA, on the 21st January in relation to the violence meted out to the Honduran migrants over the previous weekend. Any errors in translation… Read More ›