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• How to view the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz

  By kevodell on January 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The news from Guatemala, especially from Alta Verapaz, is something to dread in this year of election, especially with the notion that this will impact on the popular vote come November. The situation provides the ideal opportunity for someone to… Read More ›

• Presidential Election

  By kevodell on January 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  It is a curious fact for Guatemala Presidential elections that the person who came second in the previous elections will win the following one. This would mean that Otto Perez Molina will win and a poll in El Periódico gave… Read More ›

• Some facts of the Bámaca case

  By kevodell on January 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  We recently received a communication from Guatemala that contained a letter from Jennifer Harbury outlining the latest facts on the case of her late husband Efraín Bámaca and his assassination by the Guatemalan military. As you may know, this case… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Controversial Early Start to Election Campaign

  By kevodell on January 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “Guatemala’s election campaign got off to a controversial and premature start, with an evangelical pastor, a military officer, a former president, the president’s wife and the daughter of a general who led a coup emerging as presidential hopefuls, although three… Read More ›

• 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 ›