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‘Rosenberg case takes bizarre twist’
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In the Shadow of the Raid
On Monday 4th January, The Frontline Club is screening the film ‘In the Shadow of the Raid’. Viewing the trailer, this looks like a powerful indictment of US immigration policy. "On May 12, 2008, immigration officials stormed a kosher meatpacking… Read More ›
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Documents prove that Ríos Montt ordered the indigenous genocide in Guatemala
Documentation that the Guatemalan army, under the Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a campaign in the summer of 1982 deliberately aimed at massacring thousands of indigenous peasants, has just been presented as evidence to the Spanish National Court. Kate Doyle,… Read More ›
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Impact of mining projects on women
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URGENT ACTION: COMMUNITY LEADER KILLED BY PRIVATE SECURITY AGENTS
URGENT ACTION from ACOGUATE: A break-down in negotiations and a series of illegal eviction/removal attempts in the dispute between Guatemalan Nickel Company and neighbouring communities has led to an attack by armed groups, among them security agents of the company,… Read More ›
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Recent killings linked to Canadian-owned nickel mine in Guatemala
Dawn Paley writes in The Dominion that two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala. This article appeared on Upside Down World. The first… Read More ›
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An injustice and abuse of the law
Raul Figueroa Sarti is a well known, and well respected, human rights-focused publisher in Guatemala. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of F&G Editores. Its publications examine sensitive and important human rights issues that are not frequently covered in… Read More ›
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Caja Lúdica
Guatemala’s murder rate is ten times the world average. The harsh streets of Guatemala City are packed with drugs, gangs and guns. Caja Lúdica is a youth arts collective, using arts and carnival activities to promote a culture of peace… Read More ›
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Guatemala begins to identify civil war victims
Something made me check out the Al Jazeera website and I saw this little video. “During Guatemala’s 36-year civil war in which at least 200,000 people died, victims of the government’s death squads were buried in unmarked graves. Now they are… Read More ›
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An indictment from the grave.
A murder foretold has convulsed Guatemala’s government. Its investigation will provide a test of whether or not Central America includes a failed state. So begins this article in The Economist. It’s interesting that the article states ‘the murder rate (of nearly 50… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 