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• Guatemala – trade unions in the firing line

  By kevodell on February 14, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Noé Ramirez Portela, General Secretary of the Izabal Banana Workers’ Union of Guatemala (SITRABI) visited the UK from 26 to 28 November 2015, during which he met UK trade unionists, government and opposition officials and journalists. He also spoke at… Read More ›

• Sepur Zarco: Landmark Sexual Violence Case in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Image from the Sepur Zarco trial taken by Nelton Rivera On Monday, February 1, the landmark Sepur Zarco trial opened in Guatemala City before High-Risk Court A. It is first time that a case of sexual violence related to Guatemala’s… Read More ›

• No one is controlling Perenco…..

  By kevodell on February 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Sebastián Escalón writes, in PlazaPublica, that the oil company is operating since 2010 without having an approved Environmental Impact Study….. No one is controlling Perenco and the Office of the Counsel-General is requesting it to stop The environmental impact study… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Court Upholds Ruling on Ecocide

  By kevodell on January 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Polly Higgins writes in the blog, ‘Eradicating Ecocide‘, about the recent court case in Guatemala where the African palm oil corporation, Empresa Reforestadora de Palma de Petén SA (REPSA), lost their appeal against the first ruling of its kind. The… Read More ›

• Ghosts of Past Violence Haunt New President of Guatemala

  By kevodell on January 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  As newly-elected Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales prepares to start his four-year term, the ghosts of the Central American country’s past violence are re-emerging in a dramatic way as, earlier this month, Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor’s Office arrested 18 high-ranking retired military… Read More ›

• Arrests suggest crimes of the past will not be forgotten

  By kevodell on January 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Further to this recent post on this blog, the Guatemala Trials website speaks of the arrest of 18 former military officers in relation to crimes committed during Guatemala’s 36-year conflict. According to Sophie Beaudoin, here, “the dramatic arrests came as… Read More ›

• Payada pa’ Satán – short film

  By kevodell on January 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Did you know that to produce a single gold ring generates 18 tons of toxic waste? Mega-mining is an chemical extractive industry which impacts all the world’s ecosystems, contaminating the reserves of freshwater, affecting the health of millions of people,… Read More ›

• ‘The US School that Trains Dictators and Death Squads’

  By kevodell on December 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  On November 22, 2015, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas (SOA) to memorialise the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands… Read More ›

• Lessons in Resistance From La Puya, Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Richard Ring wrote in Counterpunch about his visit to La Puya in 2014 and looked for lessons that he could take home from the Comunidad en Resistencia. – No religious or political distinctions. Everybody drinks water. – Women in front,… Read More ›

• Resource Extraction Destroys Guatemala Social Fabric

  By kevodell on December 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Moran marches alongside other activists to demand respect for women’s rights and end to violence against women. | Photo: Facebook / Sandra Moran Resource extraction projects destroy the land and social fabric, and both are fundamental for the lives… Read More ›