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• Women Weavers: To Outsiders We’re Exotic; In Guatemala We’re the “Marías”

  By kevodell on March 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  An article by Kimberly Rocío López, has been translated into English and published in El Faro, outlining the struggle for recognition of, and respect for the craft of, women textile weavers in Guatemala. The original article is in Spanish and… Read More ›

• A Guatemalan Judge under Siege

  By kevodell on March 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Elsa Coronado has written, in Plaza Pública, about the challenges facing Judge Erika Aifán in her work against corruption. An English version, translated by Max Granger, appears in the El Faro English site. Judge Erika Aifán may not be as… Read More ›

• Statement of ABA President Patricia Lee Refo Re: Appointment of magistrates in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The American Bar Association has put out a statement voicing their concerns regarding the appointment of magistrates to the Constitutional Court. WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 – The American Bar Association is deeply concerned by media accounts and reports from human… Read More ›

• Very High Stakes – Elections to the Constitutional Court

  By kevodell on March 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  By the 23rd March, the five individuals who will serve the next 5-year term on the Guatemala Constitutional Court must be named in order to be sworn in and to take office on the 14th April. This is the date… Read More ›

• Civil Society demands judicial investigation of members of the Supreme Court

  By kevodell on March 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  More than 40 organisations and social platforms demand of the Attorney General, María Consuelo Porras, that she applies for the withdrawal of immunity of Néster Vásquez, and the other magistrates of the Supreme Court, implicated in the ‘Parallel Commissions 2020’… Read More ›

• #NosDuelen56 – The Hogar Seguro fire, four years on

  By kevodell on March 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  March 8th, as well as being International Women’s Day, is also the anniversary of the death of 41 young women and girls, in 2017, in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, (Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home) in San… Read More ›

• Canada’s Diplomatic Support to Mining Under Scrutiny

  By kevodell on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In a series of tweets, Jackie McVicar has outlined the background to an important court case taking place in Canada regarding Canadian Government pressure on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala. Guate’s constitutional… Read More ›

• Sepur Zarco: The Fight For Justice Continues

  By kevodell on February 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Based on information from Mujeres Transformando el Mundo, La Cuerda, through Jody García, has presented an infographic on the continuing fight for justice with regard to the Sepur Zarco case. Any errors in translation are mine. Five years ago, a… Read More ›

• Guatemala Takes a Hard Line Against Migrants—With US Support

  By kevodell on February 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Long before Trump, Washington was exporting control of migratory routes, along with repressive policing, to Mexico and Central America. Jeff Abbott writes in The Nation magazine about the response of Guatemalan authorities to the recent ‘caravan’ of Honduran refugees and… Read More ›

• David vs Goliath in Guatemala: how palm oil companies encroach on indigenous land

  By kevodell on February 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  A community in northern Guatemala is fighting against the force of nature and against the expansion of palm oil. Jody García writes in Climate Tracker about a community that is increasingly trapped, literally, by the effects of climate change, on… Read More ›