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• PBI Guatemala – Call for Volunteers Now Open

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International Guatemala is seeking dedicated individuals to volunteer on their field team!  Join PBI Guatemala and work alongside passionate human rights defenders at the forefront of land, access and labour rights struggles in local communities and across Guatemala…. Read More ›

• Can Guatemalans Save Their Democracy?

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Graciela Mochkofsky writes in The New Yorker on the current challenges facing Guatemala and democracy and posing that question. Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, who won a landslide victory in August, is scheduled to take office on January 14th, but nobody… Read More ›

• An Anti-Democratic Mafia Is Isolating Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Vaclav Mašek Sánchez writes in El Faro English on the continuing attempts to subvert democracy in Guatemala by the corrupt compact – El Pacto De Corruptos. The use of U.S. Treasury Magnitsky sanctions and the threat of turning into a… Read More ›

• Will coupmongers stop Guatemala’s president from taking office?

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  If Bernardo Arévalo is blocked from governing or ousted, it will be an ominous sign in a region where democracy is in peril Will Freeman writes in The Guardian on the fight to retain democracy in Guatemala in the face… Read More ›

• Marching With the President and VP-elects for Democracy and a New Direction for Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 12, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Rights Action have posted a short photo essay from the Dec. 7th march through the streets of Guatemala City in support of democracy and against the ‘Pacto de Corruptos’. On December 7, thousands of Guatemalans – Indigenous and ladino –… Read More ›

• Without Authority or Proof, Guatemalan AG Asserts Arévalo’s Election is “Null”

  By kevodell on December 12, 2023 • ( 0 )

  One month before the transfer of power, prosecutors claim to have evidence of fraud —they have yet to show any— and say the election of Bernardo Arévalo should be declared void. In response, the U.S. sanctioned over 300 people on… Read More ›

• One Month Remains for Guatemala to Preserve Its Democracy

  By kevodell on December 12, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Álvaro Montenegro writes in El Faro English on the continued attempts by the corrupt to avoid the swearing in of Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera as the next President and Vice-President. The countdown continues until January 14th next. In what… Read More ›

• The other Guatemala stands up for democracy

  By kevodell on December 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Indigenous people are rallying to defend the country’s constitution and uphold the election of Bernardo Arévalo as president Sergio Ramírez writes an Opinion, in El País English, on the challenges facing democracy in Guatemala and the resistance to corruption being… Read More ›

• “We are not trespassers: this is our land”: Agrarian Conflict & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Alta Verapaz

  By kevodell on December 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) recently held a launch of a report drawn up by a group of international human rights lawyers who travelled to Alta Verapaz earlier this year on a fact-finding mission. They went there to to meet… Read More ›

• Belgium to judge 5 Guatemalan ex-military and officials for crimes against humanity

  By kevodell on December 5, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Impunity Watch have posted a note related to the trial against Guatemalan military and officials for crimes against humanity. The names are, sadly, all too familiar. On December 4 2023 in Leuven, Belgium, a trial will begin against five former… Read More ›