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• Brief Review of 2013

  By kevodell on January 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Situation of Human rights defenders The context in Guatemala in 2013 continued being hazardous for human rights’ defenders where, up to October, there were 18 assassinations of human rights defenders and 608 attacks against them, which is almost double the… Read More ›

• 2013: A democratic setback in Guatemala

  By kevodell on January 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  “Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina was recently named The Latin Trade’s Leader of the Year for 2013 in recognition “for reshaping Guatemala’s foreign trade and investment outlook, effectively implementing changes to position the country as an attractive destination for investment… Read More ›

• Link Between Land Grabs and Sexual Violence Against Q´eqchí Women

  By kevodell on December 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Luz Mendez has posted an article on the Americas Program website describing links between land grabs and sexual violence against Maya Q’eqchí women. Relating the stories of two groups of women, who have filed claims in the courts, Mendez links… Read More ›

• Wartime victims exhumed from military base return to Pambach

  By kevodell on December 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  In the Pocomchi’ Mayan hamlet of Pambach, some 38 km from Cobán, residents gather at a local church to welcome the remains of Baldomero Chiquin (disappeared at the age of 16 with his 21-year-old brother Pedro Chiquin), Alberto Batz (disappeared… Read More ›

• Judging a Dictator: The Trial of Guatemala’s Rios Montt

  By kevodell on November 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The Open Society Justice Initiative has just published a summary of the six week trial of Efrain Rios Montt based on the daily monitoring reports from this website. The 56-page book, Judging a Dictator: The Trial of Guatemala’s Rios Montt,… Read More ›

• La Puya – Employees of EXMINGUA-KCA plead guilty to threats against journalists

  By kevodell on October 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) reports that Juan José Reyes Carrera y retired Guatemalan Army Lt., Pablo Silas Orozco Cifuentes, were sentenced to two years in prison for “threats and coercion” against independent journalists reporting on local resistance to a… Read More ›

• A personal story of the “Disappeared” in Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The annual commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared takes place on August 30th and aims to draw attention to those people who have been imprisoned without their friends or relatives knowing where or why; also to highlight the work of… Read More ›

• Guatemalan State Can No Longer Afford to Neglect Food Security

  By kevodell on August 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  This is an important article about the problems of hunger and malnutrition that affect people in Guatemala, especially its children and the state’s wilful inactivity in this regard. Joseph Ringoen is a Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs…. Read More ›

• Interview with Juan Francisco Soto, Director of CALDH

  By kevodell on August 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The following is an interview with Juan Fransisco Soto, Director of CALDH published in English by Carolyn O’Neil on the website,‘The Trial of Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez’. Twelve years went by before the querella lodged by the… Read More ›

• Despite the rejection, the cement plant is inaugurated

  By kevodell on July 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Sebastián accompanies her photographs of the demonstration against the cement plant in San Juan Sacatepéquez with some background. “Thousands of community members of San Juan Sacatepéquez demonstrated in front of the San Gabriel cement factory to reject the commencement… Read More ›