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• 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 ›

• Indigenous Guatemalans Reject Mining Moratorium, Want Genuine Community Consultation

  By kevodell on July 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The above photograph accompanies an article by Curtis Kline on the Intercontinental Cry website. “Mining in Guatemala has often been to the detriment of the Indigenous Peoples of the country as it has proven to take away their ability to… Read More ›

• La Puya’s Celebration of Life, Peace, and Defense of the Earth

  By kevodell on July 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On the same day that Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina announced a two-year moratorium on mining, human rights and environmental activist Santos Fidel Ajau Suret was gunned down after leaving the peaceful community roadblock known as La Puya. He was… Read More ›

• “Yes, there was genocide!”: Guatemala’s Ixil Vow to Keep Fighting for Justice

  By kevodell on July 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Rob Mercatante writes on the website of the Americas Program: “In the early hours of June 21 hundreds of human rights defenders, artists, feminists, musicians, religious workers, community organizers, independent journalists, international accompaniers, campesino and indigenous activists and others gathered… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Defamation and the Cost of Speaking Out

  By kevodell on July 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Mary Lawlor, from Front Line Defenders, writes about defamation and the cost of speaking out – or if you prefer the cost of speaking truth to power – in Guatemala. “Once again Yuri Melini, Rafael Maldonado and their colleagues in… Read More ›

• A Historic Verdict, Shadowed by the Past

  By kevodell on July 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  NISGUA has provided an in-depth analysis of the complex web of recent events in Guatemala including the groundbreaking conviction of Ríos Montt, the backlash of impunity that resulted in the overturn of the verdict and the ongoing repression and militarization… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s sugar cane land rush anything but sweet for corn growers

  By kevodell on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “For the past decade, the corn farmers of this village in southern Guatemala managed to scratch out two harvests of maize a year from the 10 hectares (24.7 acres) of land they rent. But the crop they planted in May… Read More ›