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• Zepur Zarco campaign

  By kevodell on June 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This from our friends at the Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) A military detachment was placed in the Sepur Zarco community located in the Polochic area, where, since the colonial times, there was demand for land by indigenous communities. The… Read More ›

• ‘The Golden Dream’ (La Jaula de Oro)

  By kevodell on June 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Immigration is a burning issue in the North, whether Europe or the US, but very seldom do we come across a film which tells the stories of poor migrants, never mind in such a poignant and gritty way. The four… Read More ›

• Why We Need an Immediate Moratorium on Gold Mining

  By kevodell on June 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Written by Eduardo Gudynas Original Source: América Latina en Movimiento, this from Upside Down World. Gold mining has become a scourge that afflicts most Latin American countries. In some places, a few giant transnational corporations operate. In others, hundreds or… Read More ›

• They return, 32 years later

  By kevodell on June 12, 2014 • ( 2 )

  They await them at the entrance to the village, in the rain. Some cover themselves with torn umbrellas while others prefer to feel the water. They were waiting for those absent for 32 years. The army took 80 men alive… Read More ›

• The Golden Dream

  By kevodell on June 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Opening in the UK on the 27th June 2014 is Diego Quemada-Diez’s astounding and gripping debut feature, The Golden Dream (La Jaula de Oro). From Peccadillo Pictures comes a piercing and poetic road movie that follows the fortunes of four… Read More ›

• Chixoy Dam – thirty year wait

  By kevodell on June 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  On May 14th, 1982, Carmen Sanchez Chen left her three-year-old son Manuel with a neighbour as she went to bathe in the Chixoy River, never to see him alive again. Thirty years later she buried him. James Rodríguez (MiMundo) has… Read More ›

• La Puya Peaceful Resistance – Multi-media slideshow

  By kevodell on June 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  James Rodríguez (MiMundo) put together a wonderful multi-media slideshow for the Guatemala: No Going Back! Conference held in London yesterday. It was done for Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP) and we are grateful to be able to show it… Read More ›

• State violence used against non-violent resistance at La Puya

  By kevodell on May 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  News has come from Guatemala that the Comunidad en Resistencia in La Puya was violently evicted over the weekend in order to make way for mining machinery to enter the mine site. The mine is owned by the US firm… Read More ›

• Congress denies Genocide

  By kevodell on May 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  An interesting development has recently taken place in Guatemala where members of Congress were asked to vote on whether or not genocide occurred there. The result was 87 out of 111 who voted that genocide did not occur. I don’t… Read More ›

• Jean-Marie Simon: A foreign witness to Guatemala’s war

  By kevodell on May 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  This is a short film from Amnesty International featuring Jean-Marie Simon, who is due in London for the Guatemala: No Going Back! conference on 31st May 2014. Jean-Marie’s unforgettable photographs of Guatemala, featured in this piece, were presented in her… Read More ›