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• A Tax Man Went After Guatemala’s Elites. Then They Hit Back.

  By kevodell on December 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Frank Jack Daniel spoke to people on all sides for a Reuters Special Report about what happened when Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, who took over Guatemala’s tax agency in 2016, took on a previously untouchable set of targets, and the… Read More ›

• 2021 Alice Zachmann Award: El Estor Resistance

  By kevodell on December 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) recently announced that the winner of the annual Alice Zachmann Human Rights Award, for 2021, is being awarded to The El Estor Resistance. In October of this year, Indigenous authorities, along with the Fisherman’s… Read More ›

• Social Insecurity: The Case of IGSS-Pisa in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Alex Papadovassilakis wrote up, recently, in InSight Crime, his investigation into serious levels of corruption into Guatemala’s social security system. The levels of corruption amongst the elites in Guatemala continue to stagger. It’s like the word ‘enough’ does not exist… Read More ›

• Oil Palm Monoculture in Ixcán Municipality, Guatemala: A Story of Dispossession and Deception

  By kevodell on December 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Herbert Sandoval, from the Social Intercultural Movement of the People of Ixcán, Guatemala (Movimiento Social Intercultural del Pueblo de Ixcán, Guatemala), has a piece on the World Rainforest Movement website about the destruction being caused by palm oil monoculture in… Read More ›

• Impunity Watch – complaint by victims to the UN

  By kevodell on December 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Impunity Watch Guatemala posted a tweet with a very short video. In the context of 25 Years Of Peace (#25AñosDeLaPaz) in #Guatemala we share the complaint presented by the victims of the armed conflict to the @UNHumanRights office against the… Read More ›

• Marking Another Year of Community Resistance to the Escobal Mine

  By kevodell on December 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Val Croft writes in the MiningWatch Canada website about ongoing community resistance, in Guatemala, towards Canadian multinational mining interests. The above are solidarity statements presented in relation to the two resistance struggles featured. Nine years ago, faced with threats posed… Read More ›

• María Choc: life between awaiting trial and a state of siege

  By kevodell on December 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Q’eqchi’ human rights defender has been waiting for three years for her legal situation to be resolved. Her situation is aggravated in a context of restriction of rights caused by a state of siege. Jody García writes in la… Read More ›

• We Reject The Criminalisation Of Critical Voices

  By kevodell on December 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Alliance For Reform (Alianza Por Las Reformas) recently issued a statement condemning state violence directed against those civil society actors fighting against systemic corruption and human rights abuses. Any errors in translation are mine. We Reject The Criminalisation Of… Read More ›

• FLD – Harassment, threats, smear campaign and criminalisation against ACOGUATE

  By kevodell on December 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Acts of harassment, threats, defamation and criminalisation campaigns against human rights defenders have no place in Guatemala and the elites of the country need to take responsibility for allowing this to happen. They continue to hide behind a thin veneer… Read More ›

• Denouncing Crackdown against Peaceful Protest in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Grassroots International recently posted a piece focussing on the events in El Estor. It is a translation of a piece from ALBA Movimientos. On Sunday, October 24, the president of Guatemala declared a state of siege in the municipality of… Read More ›