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• 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 ›

• Selecting a new Attorney General

  By kevodell on June 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We received a message from laguatemalgringa notifying us of guatemalavisible – which styles itself as a collaborative effort to bring together the will, energy and enthusiasm of diverse civil society groups seeking to strengthen the Guatemalan justice system. We noted… Read More ›

• A public-private stitch-up

  By kevodell on June 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I came across this interesting piece by Jorge Murga Armas on the always useful albedrío website (I especially acknowledge the power of its ‘mouse-over’ image). Las Tramas de las ‘alianzas público-privadas’ could be translated as The Intrigues of ‘public-private alliances’… Read More ›

• Head of CICIG resigns

  By kevodell on June 13, 2010 • ( 0 )

  News this last week from Guatemala centred on the resignation of Carlos Castresana, head of CICIG, the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. It seems to me that CICIG had been important in providing some measure of hope for… Read More ›