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• Atlas of Environmental Justice

  By kevodell on March 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    The picture above is a shot from the Atlas of Environmental Justice and shows the current entries in that atlas of environmental conflicts in Guatemala. As is the way of these things, environmental conflicts in Guatemala are far from… Read More ›

• Doc House presents Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

  By kevodell on March 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  The Doc House team are putting on a special screening of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, in London, followed by a masterclass with Pamela Yates & Paco de Onís Saturday 29th March, 2014 at 2:00pm Rich Mix Cinema 35-47… Read More ›

• Under the Volcano

  By kevodell on March 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  An anti-mining banner at the roadblock reads: “Defend our Mother Earth from the rats.” Guatemala sits atop a wealth of natural resources—nickel, gold, silver, and titanium—that lie beneath the country’s rich volcanic soil. In 1960, the Canadian-owned and -operated International… Read More ›

• ‘La Puya’: Two years against the mine

  By kevodell on March 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  We are all ‘La Puya’ Accompanied by great photographs from the 2nd anniversary celebrations at ‘La Puya’, from Sandra Sebastián, Oswaldo J. Hernández writes, Two years ago, just on the border between San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo,… Read More ›

• ‘La Puya’ and a Butterfly

  By kevodell on March 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  ‘La Puya’ and a Butterfly By Gabriela Carrera This was published on the El Salmón website. With thanks to Christina Hewitt for the translation. ‘La Puya’ is a tiny place in Guatemala, not too far from the capital. It is… Read More ›

• La Puya: Two Years of Peaceful Resistance Against an Unwanted Gold Mine

  By kevodell on March 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  More great photoreportage from James Rodríguez (MiMundo) chronicling the days leading up the 2nd anniversary of the Cominudad en Resistencia of La Puya. The highlight of the first few days was the removal of the heavy machinery that had been… Read More ›

• Celebrating Two Years of Resistance in La Puya

  By kevodell on March 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Sunday, 2nd March 2014, saw the Comunidad en Resistencia of ‘La Puya’ celebrate its 2nd anniversary in its struggle for land and dignity against a rapacious mining industry and the Guatemala state. Rachel Small has put together a fine series… Read More ›

• Chixoy Dam news

  By kevodell on February 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  This picture is part of a set of photographs from International Rivers website here. For more than twenty years, communities affected by the Chixoy Dam have demanded reparations for the damages caused by the project, which was built during Guatemala’s… Read More ›

• The Thorn Tree Resistance

  By kevodell on February 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  As Emilie Teresa Smith articulates so well in Sojourners magazine, Gold and silver mines in Guatemala are wreaking havoc on local communities. But the people, using nonviolent Christian action, are fighting back. With regard to this article, she is referring… Read More ›

• Gladys Tzul on Indigenous Governance and State Authority in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  The driving force of the history of Indigenous peoples in Latin America is the struggle for territory. This is something that has been difficult for the traditional academy to comprehend. If we examine peoples’ uprisings throughout history – in the… Read More ›