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Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s ex-dictator, to stand trial on genocide
Great news in from Guatemala today – this from Associated Press. “A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of… Read More ›
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Facts about Guatemala’s Kaibiles
Adam Isacson notes on the ‘Just the Facts’ website, ““For the first time in more than 25 years, an American Soldier has graduated from the Guatemalan special operations Kaibil School, in Poptún, Guatemala,” announces a December news release from U.S…. Read More ›
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Guatemala: Impunity, or Justice for Crimes of the Past?
In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Guatemalan state in three cases: the 1982 Río Negro massacres, the 1984 forced disappearance of union and student activist Fernando García, and 28 disappearances between 1983-1985 documented in the military… Read More ›
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A Review of 2012
Genocide cases Four ex-generals had been bound to proceedings for genocide and crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, on the 15th January 2012, the judge provisionally suspended criminal prosecution against Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores because of his state of health and ordered… Read More ›
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Mayan Priests Denied Access to Ceremonial Places in Guatemala
Following on from the previous blog
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Mayan Oxlajuj Baktun: End of an Era, More of the Same.
“It is shameful on the part of the Guatemalan government to make the international community believe it is promoting the Mayan culture, when it continues to develop an aggressive policy of appropriation of our natural resources. This manifests itself in… Read More ›
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World Bank must pay for Guatemala ‘terror loans’
In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Guatemala’s people lived through one of the most brutal periods of the twentieth century – a government-run terror campaign that turned the country into horror film. Recent research by Jubilee Debt Campaign has… Read More ›
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Golden Lie: Resistance against mining in Guatemala
“They lied to us, the gold man and the ministry of energy and mines lied to us about the project. They said we were crazy, that nothing was going to happen but we just found out about one year and… Read More ›
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Totonicapán rising – Letter to the President
We gave a short explanation of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán previously which you can read <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/totonicap%c3%a1n-rising/'iche Maya that has endured for hundreds of years, coordinating the indigenous mayorships of 48 communities, exercising self-governance in matters including environmental management… Read More ›
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Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
We have featured the struggles in the communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo before <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/third-month-of-resistance-against-a-radius-gold-owned-mine-in-guatemala/"Yoli" Oquelí, here. News that the communities had been awarded the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender Award also reached us and… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 