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• We Reject The Transfer Of Prosecutor Hilda Pineda

  By kevodell on October 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In response to the transfer of Hilda Pineda from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to that of Tourist Crimes, the Genocide Never Again Coalition (Coordinación Genocidio Nunca Más) published a rejection (above) on the grounds of justice. Below the following translation,… Read More ›

• More Dismantling Of Human Rights In Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  News came through, the other day, of yet more egregious dismantling of the Guatemala judiciary in favour of promoting impunity for crimes against humanity. AP announced that: Guatemala’s attorney general has transferred the prosecutor leading the office that took former… Read More ›

• “It’s not tiring for us to be here”: Anti-mining resistance in Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Avispa Midia published a piece on a non-violent, anti-mining resistance encampment situated in El Estor. The camp is looking to highlight violence being carried out against the local Q’eqchi’ people and has garnered support from other indigenous groups in Guatemala…. Read More ›

• The struggle for water, forests, land and the defence of the collective does not end with criminalisation

  By kevodell on October 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  ACOGUATE has published a piece about the struggle of the Maya Ch’orti’ people in the face of continuous attacks, both physical and legal, the latter especially through the criminalisation of activists in defence of land and water. For defending water,… Read More ›

• Guatemala judge says those he’s sentenced seeking revenge

  By kevodell on October 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Westport News has a piece by Sonia Pérez relating to yet another instance where members of the judiciary are being targeted by supporters of corruption in Guatemala. Judge Pablo Xitumul has been involved in the sentencing of high profile… Read More ›

• GHRC Updates: State Accountability – Laguna Larga, and the Massacre at La Cumbre de Alaska

  By kevodell on October 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has recently posted a couple of updates we wanted to share. The first is on the situation at Laguna Larga, and the second on the massacre at La Cumbre de Alaska, which took place… Read More ›

• The Forced Exile

  By kevodell on October 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Juan Francisco Sandoval wrote a piece for the ‘Justice in the Americas’ blog of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF). The blog contains versions in Spanish and in English. On March 5, 2003, I joined Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor’s Office… Read More ›

• Who Controls Justice’s Sword?

  By kevodell on October 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  El Faro English recently put out a note reflecting on the state of the judiciary in Central America, and highlighting the various to and fros with the U.S. State Department. In relation to Guatemala, the focus is, of course, on… Read More ›

• Guatemala: The Violence Against CODECA Should Cease

  By kevodell on September 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and UDEFEGUA released a denunciation following the assassination of Ramón López Jiménez, a community leader with CODECA – ‘Committee for Campesino Development’ (El Comité de Desarrollo Campesino) With the murder… Read More ›

• UDEFEGUA denounces assaults at exhumation

  By kevodell on September 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  ALERT We denounce assaults in the exhumation for the massacre of 116 children in 1988, in Cunén. This Tuesday, 28th September 2021, former civil defence patrollers (ex-PAC), blocked and obstructed the start of an exhumation programmed for today in the… Read More ›