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• The Election of Gloria Porras by the University High Council

  By kevodell on July 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Impunity Watch have just published a report, in Spanish, regarding the election of Gloria Porras to the Constitutional Court. On 4 March 2021, the Superior University Council (Consejo Superior Universitario – CSU) of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala… Read More ›

• Amnesty for War Crimes is Back on the Table

  By kevodell on July 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In the midst of attempts to block justice being carried out either with regard to corruption or historical crimes, particular powers are attempting to introduce, into law, amnesty for crimes against humanity and genocide. Jeff Abbott writes in The Progressive… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Counterattack against Anti-Corruption Campaign

  By kevodell on July 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Gabriel Labrador writes in El Faro about the concerted attack by affected powers against anti-corruption figures in Guatemala. Targets include Judge Erika Aifán, who leads the capital’s highest-risk ‘D’ court, the Director of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI),… Read More ›

• Justice in the Juana Raymundo Rivera case contributes to advancing the human rights of girls and women in the Ixil area

  By kevodell on July 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  ACOGUATE has published a piece about the femicide of Juana Raymundo Rivera and how justice has been found and applied in Ixil. For almost three years, the parents of Juana Raymundo Rivera have been seeking justice for the femicide of… Read More ›

• Revised NGO Law threatens freedom of association in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala Solidarity Network (GSN) wishes to “express our profound concern regarding the amendments to Bill 5257, a law governing the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), that went into effect Monday, June 21st, following the Guatemalan Constitutional Court’s (CC) denial of… Read More ›

• The community of Chicoyogüito and their struggle for justice

  By kevodell on June 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  On the 28th July, 1968, the community of Chicoyogüito, in Alta Verapaz, was evicted from its lands in order to instal the former Military Zone 21 (ZM 21), which became a detention centre, as well as a site for massacres… Read More ›

• Central America Needs a Commission to Prosecute Corruption, Not a War on Migration

  By kevodell on June 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Victoria Sanford had an interesting opinion piece published in BarrioZona in advance of the visit to Guatemala of the United States Vice President, Kamala Harris. Following a virtual bilateral meeting last month with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, Vice President Kamala… Read More ›

• One man’s crusade to take on government corruption in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Giselle Fernandez has a piece on Spectrum News NY1 about Juan Francisco Sandoval, the head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (Fiscalía Especializada Contra la Impunidad – FECI). FECI is one of the few institutions left in the country… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Disappeared – Fault Lines

  By kevodell on June 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In 2017, Al Jazeera produced the film ‘Guatemala’s Disappeared’ as part of their Fault Lines series. It still resonates today especially with the current hearing into the Diario Militar case. The film features the work of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology… Read More ›

• ‘Huge step’: Relatives of Guatemala disappeared hope for justice

  By kevodell on June 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Retired military officials will stand trial on charges of disappearing and killing dissidents in 1980s during civil war. Sandra Cuffe writes in Al Jazeera about the Diario Militar Case (‘Death Squad Dossier’) and its effect on people who have been… Read More ›