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• Child migrants head north fleeing violence, and believing they will be allowed to stay

  By kevodell on June 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  “On the last day of school, Gladys Chinoy memorized her mother’s phone number in New York City and boarded a bus to Guatemala’s northern border. With nothing but the clothes on her back, the 14-year-old took a truck-tire raft across… Read More ›

• Tahoe on Trial – a great new resource

  By kevodell on June 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Guatemalan plaintiffs seek corporate accountability in Canada for violence A fantastic new blogsite has recently been launched by Breaking the Silence, NISGUA and MiningWatch Canada revolving around the struggle taking place in the municipality of San Rafael las Flores in… Read More ›

• Justice for Rape and Sexual Slavery in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  On the ‘Women’s rights, social inclusion and the media’ blog, the following on the judicial process regarding Zepur Zarco (Sepur Zarco), which we mentioned recently here. Thanks to Central America Women’s Network (CAWN). by Quimy De Leon – Community Newspapers… Read More ›

• 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 ›