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• Legal news from NISGUA

  By kevodell on August 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The genocide cases have moved forward against former General and de facto President Efraín Ríos Montt and two officials under his command: retired General and former Army Chief of Staff Hector Mario López Fuentes and former Director of Military Intelligence… Read More ›

• Accumulation by Dispossession

  By kevodell on August 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  James Rodríguez of MiMundo chronicles another mining story, this time in the Dominican Republic. While at a distance from Guatemala, the company is the same – Goldcorp. Many of the images and stories are familiar to those already familiar with… Read More ›

• El Quetzal

  By kevodell on August 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The newest edition of Guatemala Human Rights Commission’s (GHRC) newsletter, El Quetzal, is now available online. In this issue, they feature articles about attacks against land rights activists around the country, including a close-up account of the impacts of the… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Highest Court to Hear Landmark Indigenous Challenge against Mining Law

  By kevodell on July 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “Today [July 20th 2012], Guatemala’s Constitutional Court will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the 1997 mining law for failure to consult with the country’s indigenous peoples who make up more than half the population. The lawsuit, filed by… Read More ›

• The spoils of an undeclared war

  By kevodell on July 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  How Guatemala’s ‘War on Drugs’ is being used as a front to clear land for oil companies We mentioned previously about the Guatemala Government’s subservience to global corporate interests, namely that of French oil company Perenco. An article by Dawn… Read More ›

• Divide and rule in the land of gold

  By kevodell on July 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  We have featured the pain and hardship that has affected the people of San Miguel Ixtahaucán in the Western Highlands as they struggle against the everyday power of global capital. Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine has been the cause of much sorrow… Read More ›

• In San Rafael Las Flores and my House, the Mine does not Pass

  By kevodell on July 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

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• Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

  By kevodell on July 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people in the 1980s — and Pamela Yates’ 1983 documentary, When… Read More ›

• ‘We find Goldcorp guilty ‘

  By kevodell on July 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The Peoples’ International Health Tribunal delivered its verdict on the 15th July 2012 in San Miguel Ixtahuacán – “we find Goldcorp guilty for its activities in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, which we find to be seriously damaging to the health… Read More ›

• Language, Identity, Inclusion

  By kevodell on July 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  In the UK, many local and national government services are promoted in other languages other than the ‘home’ languages of English, Scots Gaelic, and Welsh. It is recognised that in order to reach people you need to reach out in… Read More ›