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• Exhumation inside Coban’s former Military Garrison

  By kevodell on June 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Coban exhumation “On February 27th, 2012, The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) began an exhumation process inside the former Military Garrison of Coban, one of the country’s largest cities. After three months of work in search of more victims from… Read More ›

• Third Month of Resistance Against a Radius Gold-owned Mine in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Resistance Against EXMINGUA Gold Mine “Barely 28 kilometers northeast from Guatemala City, community members from the municipalities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, also within the Department of Guatemala, have blocked the entrance to the Tambor gold… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Government to Dismantle its “Archives of Peace”

  By kevodell on June 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Kate Doyle, of the National Security Archive, writes that “in a surprise move, the Guatemalan government has announced the effective closing of the “Peace Archives,” one of the most active and important institutions created in the wake of the 1996… Read More ›

• Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “In 1982 amid Guatemala’s brutal civil war, 20 army commandos invaded the jungle hamlet of Dos Erres disguised as rebels. The squad members, called Kaibiles, cut their way through the town, killing more than 250 people. Only a handful survived…. Read More ›

• Goldcorp’s Legacy: Criminalization and Mining Resistance in San Rafael Las Flores

  By kevodell on May 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “Clodoveo Rodriguez, better known as Don Clodo in his native San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa, has lived his 78 years in the arid community. Since late 2011, his home has literally been fenced-in by the neighboring Escobal silver mine,… Read More ›

• “The Scandal of Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean”

  By kevodell on May 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “In Guatemala’s case, the insidious effects of inequality are clear. There can be no suggestion that the continued and increasing suffering of Guatemala’s poor – most particularly its indigenous population – is due to a lack of resources or institutional… Read More ›

• “Dos Erres: the long road to justice”

  By kevodell on April 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “Dos Erres: the long road to justice” By Louisa Reynolds I In 1979, Juan Pablo Arévalo dug a well in his land, unaware of the fact that he was digging his own grave. His son, Saúl Arévalo, 54, takes off… Read More ›

• The Indigenous, Peasant and Popular March arrives to Guatemala City

  By kevodell on April 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “After 9 days and 212 kilometers, the Indigenous, Campesino and Popular March for the defense of Mother Earth, against evictions, criminalization, and in favor of Integrated Rural Development, arrived to the center of the Capital City. According to members of… Read More ›

• Justice comes for victims of massacre

  By kevodell on April 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  This article, by Louisa Reynolds, was featured on the Latinamerica Press website, and provides some good background to the story. Court sentences another soldier who participated in Dos Erres massacre. Maria Ofelia Gómez Hernández will never forget Dec. 6, 1982…. Read More ›

• Q&A: ‘We Are on the Road to Overcoming Impunity’ in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Danilo Valladares interviews Rosalina Tuyuc, winner of the Niwano Peace Prize. This was on the Global Issues website and is from Inter Press Service. ‘To achieve peace, it is necessary for the truth to come out, and for the victims… Read More ›