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• Trial for Guatemala Massacre Concludes, but U.S. Military Aid Continues

  By Patrick Daniels on August 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Twenty eight years after the massacre of 251 indigenous farmers, I found myself silently accompanying human rights organizations scrambling to identify the remains. The request for a daily international presence from the organization of families of the disappeared in Guatemala… Read More ›

• Film Screening: ‘Granito: How to Nail a Dictator’

  By Patrick Daniels on March 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Frontline will be hosting the Pamela Yates’s new film on Guatemala: ‘Granito: How To Nail A Dictator’ on the April the 1st 7pm. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Pamela Yates afterwards.   Following her groundbreaking documentary… Read More ›

• Speaking event on Post Conflict Human Rights in Guatemala

  By Patrick Daniels on February 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Dear readers, My name is Sam Pearse I am a former international accompanier with GSN, and have returned to the UK since my period of accompaniment.I will be starting a speaking tour on Post-Conflict Human Rights in Guatemala, focusing on… Read More ›

• Norma Cruz mentioned in parliamentary question

  By Patrick Daniels on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala has been mentioned twice this week in parliament: once in Foreign Affairs questions in relation to the Guatemala-Belize border situation, and in the Lords in relation to Norma Cruz. We have recorded several times the important work that Norma… Read More ›

• Another arrest made in Dos Erres case

  By Patrick Daniels on February 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  As we reported back in September, former kaibil Gilberto Jordan was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Florida for lying on his naturalisation papers. He hid his role in the Dos Erres massacre to obtain US citizenship. Recently, another former… Read More ›

• Peace Brigades International on Radio 4 Appeal

  By Patrick Daniels on February 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Accompaniment got some perhaps unusual but welcome exposure this week as Peace Brigades International was chosen as the organisation to feature on the Radio 4 Appeal. It features the case of indigenous Mexican woman Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who was able… Read More ›

• Víctor Leiva Murdered

  By Patrick Daniels on February 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  It is with great sadness I report the murder of Víctor Leiva on the 2nd February. Shot with two bullets from a passing truck, Victor died in the hospital of San Juan de Dios that same night. A friend of… Read More ›

• GSN twitter account!

  By Patrick Daniels on January 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Well, we’ve finally gone and joined the 21st century and have opened a twitter account. Hopefully the restriction on text will mean we’ll find the time to ‘tweet’ more often than we blog, but rest assured we’ll continue with our… Read More ›

• Angelica Choc announces lawsuit brought in Canadian courts against HudBay Minerals Inc.

  By Patrick Daniels on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  As appears in: http://www.chocversushudbay.com/   On September 27, 2009, Adolfo Ich Chamán, a respected indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ community leader and an outspoken critic of harms and rights violations caused by Canadian mining activities in his community, was hacked and shot… Read More ›

• In Defence of CICIG

  By Patrick Daniels on November 17, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Whilst CICIG-the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala- is no stranger to criticism, it has come under attack in recent weeks, the intensity of which seems to be aimed at delegitimising the very basis of the organisation. During this time… Read More ›