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• End the violence and impunity in Guatemala – Banana Link appeal

  By kevodell on December 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Regular readers will be aware of the precarious existence of community leaders in Guatemala. This also applies to trade union leaders. Our friends in Banana Link have recently posted an appeal on their website to end the violence and impunity… Read More ›

• UK Minister’s visit to Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  There were some mentions of Guatemala in Parliament recently in written form, in reply to questions from Katy Clark, the Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran. The Minister of State with responsibilities for Latin America, Jeremy Brown, visited Guatemala… Read More ›

• Los Preciosos

  By kevodell on December 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I came across this beautiful story of adoption from rural East Cork, in Ireland. Two children from Guatemala, Jacobo aged 4 and Natalie aged 5. Their father, Vittorio, is Italian. Their mother, Jools, is English. A family from three countries… Read More ›

• Attacks on justice and the rule of law in Honduras

  By kevodell on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Neighbouring Guatemala, Honduras suffered a coup last year which has been little reported, especially here in the UK. The coup, its implicit support from the United States, and its consequences for the rule of law and justice, are pointers in… Read More ›

• It Was Heaven That They Burned

  By kevodell on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I came across this essay by Greg Grandin in The Nation which, apparently, was commissioned as a preface to a new edition of ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú‘. However, the essay was excluded. It is still interesting reading for those who have… Read More ›

• Exhumations at La Verbena: The Time has Come, with this Evidence, to seek Justice

  By kevodell on October 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  “Members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) have now been working for seven months on the landmark exhumations at La Verbena Cemetery. Without a doubt, this is the most complex and ambitious project in search of the 45,000 detained-disappeared,… Read More ›

• Guatemala forfeits spending on health infrastructure

  By kevodell on October 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  “The decision to lower royalties from six percent to one percent meant that Guatemala forfeited more than US$28m in three years. In 2006, the fiscal cost of this tax incentive to one mining company exceeded Guatemala’s total spending on health… Read More ›

• Wrenching Testimony and a Historic Sentence: US Court Convicts Dos Erres Perpetrator for Lying about Role in Massacre.

  By kevodell on September 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We were recently notified of this Kate Doyle article on the National Security Archive site. History was made yesterday (September 17, 2010) when a U.S. District Court Judge in Southern Florida, William J. Zloch, sentenced former Guatemalan special forces soldier… Read More ›

• La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia

  By kevodell on August 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  A good friend went to see the premier showing in Guatemala City, back in April, of the film by Uli Stelzner that the blog featured previously, La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia (‘archives of a tragedy’). She sent me… Read More ›

• LAB highlights new reports

  By kevodell on June 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We welcome back the Latin America Bureau (LAB) from their short absence and they have a website which is well worth a visit for all things Latin America. Two reports on Guatemala were highlighted recently on their website by Javier… Read More ›