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• Guatemalans join together to demand their leaders “resign”

  By kevodell on April 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  A remarkable, even for Guatemala, ten days culminated yesterday in thousands of people marching in Guatemala City calling for the President and Vice-president to resign among accusations of massive corruption. We reported in 2010 that “whilst CICIG – the International… Read More ›

• How a quasi-military project was created to protect the Escobal mine

  By kevodell on April 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “An affidavit given on November 24, 2014 by Donald Paul Gray, vice president of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources Inc., has shed light on the strong interests at play since 2011 in contracting private security companies for the Escobal… Read More ›

• ‘Burden of Peace’ – Review

  By kevodell on March 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Burden of Peace crowdfunding trailer English from Framewerk on Vimeo. The film ‘Burden of Peace’ had its International Premiere in London this evening in front of a full cinema in London as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival…. Read More ›

• On the front lines of mining protests with the Maya

  By kevodell on March 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Sr. Dani Brought accompanies resisters outside the gold mine at La Puya. Armed police are a constant, intimidating presence. (Mary Jo McConahay) Mary Jo McConahy has written this piece for the Global Sisters Report website. It is reproduced here. To… Read More ›

• ‘Burden of Peace’ – International Film Premiere

  By kevodell on March 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Burden of Peace crowdfunding trailer English from Framewerk on Vimeo. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival London is presenting the International premiere of ‘Burden of Peace’. The film follows Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz. After taking… Read More ›

• ¡Que viva La Puya! – ¡Viva!

  By kevodell on March 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  On Sunday, 1st March, La Comunidad de Resistencia celebrated their third anniversary in their struggle against the imposition of a gold mine in their community. Known as La Puya, the community is situated in the area around San Pedro Ayampuc,… Read More ›

• La Puya – 3rd anniversary approaches

  By kevodell on February 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Since March 2, 2012, residents from around the proposed site of the El Tambor Mine had maintained a peaceful, 24-hour blockade at the entrance to the mine, which is owned by the Reno-based engineering firm Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA)…. Read More ›

• El Quetzal – Winter 2014-15

  By kevodell on February 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Guatemala Human Rights Commission’s (GHRC) Winter 2014-2015 issue of El Quetzal highlights continued challenges regarding the defence of land rights and provides updates from a slew of important human rights cases. The issue also includes a report from their autumn… Read More ›

• Norwegian Fund Divests from Tahoe Resources

  By kevodell on February 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Latest from the Tahoe on Trial website is an exhortation to North American shareholders in Tahoe Resources to follow Norway’s Council on Ethics’ lead and divest. Canadian and U.S. investors are urged to make use of a report published last… Read More ›

• ‘Water that will extinguish the flames’

  By kevodell on January 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “Three and a half decades had to go by in order to achieve justice for a horrendous moment in the history of the country. At the time, television cameras recorded the burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala and showed… Read More ›