Author Archives
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Otto Pérez, Sleepless Nights and the CICIG
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 ›
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Indigenous Campesinos in Guatemala Demand an End to Violent Evictions
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 ›
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Reporting on corruption proves deadly in Guatemala
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 ›
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Rights under siege: the remilitarisation of Guatemala
“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 ›
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Guatemalans join together to demand their leaders “resign”
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 ›
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How a quasi-military project was created to protect the Escobal mine
“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 ›
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‘Burden of Peace’ – Review
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 ›
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On the front lines of mining protests with the Maya
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 ›
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‘Burden of Peace’ – International Film Premiere
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 ›
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¡Que viva La Puya! – ¡Viva!
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 ›
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