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• Latin American women are changing hip-hop

  By kevodell on August 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  ‘La Cumbia de la Memoria’ (video oficial) Guatemalan hip-hop artiste Rebeca Lane is featured in the UK Guardian in an article on how Latin American women are changing the face of hip-hop. Challenging the machista culture of hip-hop, her 2012… Read More ›

• Lynchings and the Politics of Inequality

  By kevodell on August 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  On May 20th, 2015, a sixteen-year-old girl was captured, beaten and, while bystanders watched passively, burned alive. She died. The brutality of the crime assured that, even from a remote corner of the world, international news outlets would run the… Read More ›

• Rising attacks against journalists in Guatemala cause concern for press advocates

  By kevodell on August 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  In the first six months of 2015 alone, there were 59 documented attacks against journalists in Guatemala, according to a report released last week by the Observatory for Journalists of the Center for Informative Reports about Guatemala (CERIGUA for its… Read More ›

• Victory for La Puya

  By kevodell on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The ‘Comunidad en Resistencia‘ of La Puya achieved a notable victory in a Guatemalan appeals court when it ruled in favor of the right of the residents to be consulted about those projects that affect them and ordered the suspension… Read More ›

• Palm Oil Industry Tied to Ecocide in Guatemalan River

  By kevodell on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott talks about ‘ecocide’ in the Peten, due to palm oil plantations. The Pasión River in northern Guatemala is a disaster area. Beginning on June 6, residents along the river in the municipality of Sayaxché, Peten, began to find… Read More ›

• Corruption and impunity – Guatemalans are angry

  By kevodell on June 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “A massive tax fraud scheme exposed in Guatemala this April might once have been viewed as business as usual in a country that has struggled with corruption at the highest levels for decades. Instead, Guatemalans got angry.” Events in Guatemala… Read More ›

• Forensic science in search of the ‘disappeared’

  By kevodell on June 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “During Guatemala’s internal armed conflict (1960-1996) almost 200,000 people are thought to have been killed or ‘disappeared’ at the hands of repressive and violent regimes. Those lives matter. Their families’ demands are clear: they want to know what happened to… Read More ›

• Music and Film news

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Music | ‘Tiembla patriarcado, tiembla: Hip Hop, Rebeldía y, Equidad’ (Tremble, patriarchy, tremble: Hip hop, rebelliousness and equality) On March 8, a compiled work of 12 Latin American rappers was launched. “We are women, we are Hip Hop” began in… Read More ›

• ‘El Eco del Dolor de Mucha Gente (The Echo of Pain of the Many)’

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “For over 30 years, members of the Cuevas family have been campaigning for justice for our son and brother Carlos, disappeared in 1984, and our sister-in-law Rosario Godoy de Cuevas and their family, abducted and murdered at the hands of… Read More ›

• CAWN Newsletter – Spring 2015

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) have just published their latest Newsletter and contains many interesting items and articles. They have included a first-hand account from a young female volunteer talking about her recent volunteer experience of volunteering in El… Read More ›