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• 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 ›

• Land Grabs, the Latest Form of Genocide in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Leonor Hurtado of the Institute for Food and Development Policy – Food First writes about the genocide being carried out in Guatemala with land and food as the means. “In today’s Guatemala, land and resource control is increasingly in the… Read More ›

• Confused about Genocide in Guatemala?

  By kevodell on June 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  After the conviction and subsequent (illegal?) overturning of the verdict against Ríos Montt on genocide and crimes against humanity, there is apparently a deal of debate as to whether genocide was actually committed in Guatemala during the Ríos Montt de… Read More ›

• Ríos Montt Trial

  By kevodell on June 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Pamela Yates (When the Mountains Tremble and Granito) has posted a great series of short films from the genocide trial of General Ríos Montt. The 19 episodes of Dictator in the Dock can be found here. The Washington Office on… Read More ›

• Increased attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Alert issued by Peace Brigades International (PBI) Guatemala, May 2013 The purpose of this “Alert” is to draw attention to, and share our concerns regarding the intensification and severity of attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala, the defamation and… Read More ›