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• “Yes to life, no to mining:” An update on the Xinka resistance to the Escobal mine

  By kevodell on April 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  NISGUA has published an update on the Xinka resistance to the Escobal mine. For over a decade, impacted communities have resisted the illegally-imposed Escobal mine. Tahoe Resources, a U.S.-Canadian company, first opened the mine, which is on one of the… Read More ›

• A Guatemalan judge’s flight into exile signals trouble for US

  By kevodell on April 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Whitney Eulich writes in The Christian Science Monitor on the situation regarding the exile of Judge Erika Aifán and Washington’s increasing lack of influence in fighting corruption and criminality in Guatemala. One of Guatemala’s most important judges, Erika Aifán, fled… Read More ›

• The Hidden Story of a Notorious Guatemalan Nickel Mine

  By kevodell on April 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in The Intercept about the situation in El Estor and the global investigation that uncovered a multitude of documents highlighting corruption at the very highest level, impacting those that live there. It is a grim tale. Cristóbal… Read More ›

• Simply put, CACIF cannot continue destroying Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 27, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Claudia Virginia Samayoa is the founder and co-ordinator of UDEFEGUA, an organisation that works in the monitoring, investigation and raising awareness of organizations that defend Human Rights in Guatemala. She wrote recently, in La Hora, about the oligarchy, and big… Read More ›

• GSN Newsletter – Spring 2022

  By kevodell on March 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  GSN is trialling a new Newsletter so here is the first and we hope you find it of interest. You can use the links above to read it and download it.

• Judge Aifán, from Exile: “My life was in danger in Guatemala”

  By kevodell on March 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  José Luis Sanz interviews Judge Erika Aifán after she had gone into exile after a long, and concerted, series of attacks on her integrity and the integrity of the Guatemala judicial system. It is available in El Faro, as is… Read More ›

• Forbidden Stories – Mining Secrets

  By kevodell on March 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Forbidden Stories presented Mining Secrets, a leak of thousands of documents, shared by hacking collective ‘Guacamaya Roja’, that comes from mining giant Solway in Guatemala. The leak of more than eight million company documents revealed how the mining company, operating… Read More ›

• Niñas / Somos el fuego

  By kevodell on March 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  What did they tell you when you arrived at the safe house? Welcome to pure hell. On the 8th March 2017, International Women’s Day, 56 young women and girls were locked in a 7m x 6.8m classroom at the Hogar… Read More ›

• ‘Abandons its people’: Guatemala’s malnutrition crisis deepens

  By kevodell on March 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “Malnutrition is not just being hungry. Malnutrition is not having access to the basics of your human rights” Jeff Abbott writes in Al Jazeera about the scourge of malnutrition in Guatemala, especially among Indigenous peoples, and the complete indifference of… Read More ›

• Crackdown on Guatemala Prosecutors Intensifies Amid Presidential Corruption Claims

  By kevodell on March 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Alex Papadovassilakis writes in InSight Crime on the continuing hollowing out of independent prosecutors who have been tackling the rampant corruption and impunity that is gripping Guatemala. With cries of corruption mounting against Guatemala’s president, the country’s Attorney General, Consuelo… Read More ›