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• 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 ›

• Guatemala farmers losing their land to Europe’s demand for biofuels

  By kevodell on July 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  We have written before about the scandal of the evictions in the

• We want Pencils, not Weapons: San Juan Sacatepéquez rejects new Military Brigade

  By kevodell on July 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “During the annual June 30th observance of Guatemalan Armed Forces Day, thousands of people marched in San Juan Sacatepéquez from their rural communities to the central square in rejection to the newly assigned military brigade in the municipality. Locals were… Read More ›

• Attempted assassination of community activist

  By kevodell on June 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  We featured recently <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/third-month-of-resistance-against-a-radius-gold-owned-mine-in-guatemala/”Yoli” Oquelí – pictured above. “On June 13th, at approximately 6:30pm, Yoli was ambushed by two men on a motorcycle while driving to her home in San José del Golfo. She was shot at repeatedly; one… Read More ›

• 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 ›