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• Ayotzinapa – EuroCaravana 43 comes to London

  By kevodell on May 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  It is estimated that some 45,000 people were disappeared during the armed conflict in Guatemala. Family members of the disappeared are still waiting to find out what the State did to them – to find out the truth. The pain… Read More ›

• Popular Protests Challenge Corruption and the Political Establishment

  By kevodell on May 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  More good commentary regarding the demonstrations that have taken place in Guatemala over the corruption scandal that has led to the resignation of the Vice-president. Jeff Abbott reflects from the demonstrations that took place on the 16th of May (#RenunciaYaFase2)… Read More ›

• Corruption scandal sparks nationwide protests

  By kevodell on May 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  By Richard Arghiris More than 40,000 protesters swept through the streets of Guatemala City yesterday, Saturday 16 May 2015, to vent fury over the nation’s unfolding corruption scandal, which is set to become the country’s most severe political crisis since… Read More ›

• ‘Tell us a story with your mobile phone’

  By kevodell on May 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  POY Latam (Pictures of the Year Latin America) was created in 2011 to celebrate the documentary and artistic photography of Latin America and has become the largest and most important competition in the region. Under the title, ‘Tell us a… Read More ›

• Vice-President resigns amid continued protests

  By kevodell on May 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Following on from the arrests in relation to the massive tax and customs fraud in Guatemala which seemed to ensnare the Vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, comes the news this week of her resignation (in the services of the people!). In announcing… Read More ›

• Dam protests met with repression in Ixil region of Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  This video footage compiled by Guatevision includes a selection of brief clips showing some of the protests and state response. On April 28th, a massive contingent of police was sent into the Ixil triangle in Guatemala to evict a road… Read More ›

• Otto Pérez, Sleepless Nights and the CICIG

  By kevodell on May 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  President Otto Pérez Molina extended the CICIG’s mandate in Guatemala against his will, as a desperate measure to alleviate a political crisis, and to hold off critics and accusations against him and Vice-president, Roxana Baldetti. Carlos Arrazola has written a… Read More ›

• Indigenous Campesinos in Guatemala Demand an End to Violent Evictions

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Early in the morning on April 17, the international day of the campesino’s struggle, nearly 450 indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayan families from the Guatemalan departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, and Izabal arrived in the historic centre of Guatemala and began… Read More ›

• Reporting on corruption proves deadly in Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Louisa Reynolds writes in Al Jazeera America of the recent murderous attacks on journalists in Guatemala which left three dead. At the beginning of March, Danilo López, a correspondent for Guatemala’s largest national newspaper, Prensa Libre, and Federico Salazar, a… Read More ›

• Rights under siege: the remilitarisation of Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “There were around 2,500 police and army in the region,” Francisco tells me. “With tanks and trucks and everything it seemed as if they were coming to war.” Since the construction of the Escobal silver mine in the neighbouring village… Read More ›