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• 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 ›

• Humberto Ak’abal in Scotland

  By kevodell on February 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In 2010, a modest Scottish publisher, Kettillonia, published a book of poetry, Drum of Stone, by celebrated Guatemalan Maya Kʼicheʼ poet Humberto Ak’abal, who sadly passed away just two years ago. The book presents poems in K’iche’, translated into English,… Read More ›

• 13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say

  By kevodell on February 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Kate Linthicum and Jeff Abbott write a very sad story in the Los Angeles Times, highlighting the frightening dangers posed to migrants heading north, through extremely hostile territory, to the United States. As 15-year-old Robelson Isidro left Guatemala this month,… Read More ›

• Guatemala Cross-Border Crime and Corruption Investigation

  By kevodell on February 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  InSight Crime made a presentation recently regarding an investigation into cross-border crime and corruption in Guatemala. Drug trafficking has been reconfigured in Guatemala. The large clans that traditionally dominated the business have broken up. Now the main actors are small… Read More ›

• Growing concerns regarding the situation of women human rights defenders in the northeast of Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Front Line Defenders recently made their concerns known about the situation of women human rights defenders in Guatemala and spoke about the challenges facing both Lourdes Haquelina Gómez Willis and Delia Adelina Leal Mollinedo. Front Line Defenders is deeply concerned… Read More ›