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• 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 ›

• Guatemalan Court rules former Senior Military & Police must face Justice over War Crimes

  By kevodell on September 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Military Diary Case European Support Network (Red Europea de Solidaridad Caso Diario Militar) issued a press release, yesterday, in response to the news that the presiding judge in the Death Squad Diary case (Caso Diario Militar) has stated that… Read More ›

• Still missing

  By kevodell on September 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Thousands of labour activists were disappeared during the Guatemalan civil war. As a trial of 12 alleged death squad members begins, Canadians with links to the missing hope for justice. Erin Ellis writes movingly and, in some cases graphically, on… Read More ›

• The U.S. Sanctions the Attorney General And The Trolls Respond

  By kevodell on September 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  A couple of days ago, the United States’ State Department announced that it was adding the Guatemala Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, and Angel Pineda, the Secretary General of the Public Ministry (MP), to the United States’ Undemocratic and Corrupt Actors… Read More ›

• GHRC – Human Rights Update

  By kevodell on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  GHRC recently published (18th Sep ’21) its latest Human Rights Update. Constitutional Court Ruling Leaves Judge Erika Aifán Open to ChargesOn September 16, the Constitutional Court rejected an injunction filed by high-risk court judge Erika Aifán, a ruling which leaves… Read More ›