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• The children of Guatemala are starving

  By kevodell on December 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Natasha Pizzey-Siegert Paulina Noj sits with three of her eight children.    The children of Guatemala are starving By Natasha Pizzey-Siegert Half of Guatemala’s children are malnourished. Years of poverty, violence and underdevelopment are taking a toll on Guatemala’s most… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Archives on Decades of Police Terror Accessible Online

  By kevodell on December 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “Millions of documents from the Guatemalan national police archive, shedding light on torture, forced disappearances and murders committed during the1960-1996 counterinsurgency war in this country, are now available on-line thanks to a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.”… Read More ›

• “The Mine” – Guatemala City

  By kevodell on December 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “In Guatemala City, a place called "The Mine" can deliver both a means of survival and a grisly death. Every day, dozens of residents salvage a living by scouring the massive dump for scrap metal. Facing the threat of mudslides,… Read More ›

• “This land is ours”

  By kevodell on December 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “The villagers had no idea that their land had been nationalised in‭ ‬1984‭ ‬– a fact that was concealed from them for‭ ‬28‭ ‬years.‭ ‬They are perplexed,‭ ‬shocked,‭ ‬and angry. In the‭ ‬1980s the area was scorched with genocide and… Read More ›

• ‘As Firm as a Tree’

  By kevodell on October 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

      On July 7th 2010, gunmen entered the home of Diodora Hernández (above) and shot her in the eye. Diodora worked with a group of women active in defending community water resources from Canadian mining company Goldcorp. Goldcorp has… Read More ›

• Hunger in Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  World Food Day was the 16th October and, to ‘celebrate’, Danilo Valladares wrote an article for Inter Press Service, found on Global Issues. The article was titled, ‘Guatemala: Little Headway against Rampant Malnutrition’. “ The Guatemalan population of 14 million… Read More ›

• Guatemala on Democracy Now

  By kevodell on September 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Two pieces on Democracy Now were broadcast recently regarding Guatemala. The first one features Jennifer Harbury and discusses, among other things, the first round of the Presidential elections and the role of Otto Pérez Molina in the disappearance of her… Read More ›

• Between a rock and a hard place…..

  By kevodell on September 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The results of the Guatemala Presidential elections, which took place on Sunday, 11th September, left two candidates to run-off on the 6th November. According to PlazaPública, Otto Pérez Molina gained 36.08% and Manuel Baldizón was second with 23.3%. Presidential elections… Read More ›

• ‘Headline Today: Guatemala’

  By kevodell on August 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  ‘Päivän otsikko: Guatemala’ (Headline Today: Guatemala) is a documentary from Finnish television from 1983 presenting events taking place in 1982 in Guatemala through the eyes of a US reporter and photographer.The reporter and journalist happen to be Allan Nairn and… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues

  By kevodell on August 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have… Read More ›