Alex Papadovassilakis writes in InSight Crime on the ‘spontaneous’ and ‘voluntary’ surrender of a high level fugitive, more than a year after he was charged with money laundering. A minister in the government of Jimmy Morales, he is wanted in… Read More ›
Corruption
25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala
In Guatemala, safeguards against corruption, impunity, and state violence are being dismantled by the politicians, elites, and military and some fear the return of an authoritarian state. Giovanni Batz writes in NACLA on the 25th anniversary of the signing of… Read More ›
Hope amidst the darkness: Victims continue to press for justice for wartime atrocities in Guatemala
At the end of last year, Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada presented a commentary, in WOLA, on the challenges facing those seeking justice for crimes carried out during the internal armed conflict. Many successes have occurred but the state, including… Read More ›
Podcast – The indigenous resistance against megaprojects
Gio B’at’z spoke, recently, on the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center podcast, Emancipated, on a book he is working on about the Maya Ixil resistance and the struggle against mega-projects in Guatemala. During the talk, he discusses state-sponsored violence, the… Read More ›
Guatemala: 25 years later, ‘firm and lasting peace’ is nowhere to be found
W. George Lovell has written, in The Conversation, on the failing of the peace accords to bring a firm and lasting peace, highlighting the legacy of violence, corruption, neo-liberalism, and over exploitation of human and natural resources. Dec. 29 marked… Read More ›
Guatemalans still seek justice, 25 years after civil war’s end
On the twenty fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace accords, Sandra Cuffe writes in Al Jazeera on the challenges facing those seeking justice for the crimes of the State during the internal armed conflict, and the forces at… Read More ›
Guatemala’s Failed Promise
Jeff Abbott has written a piece for The Progressive, reflecting on the failure of the Guatemalan Peace Accords, twenty-five years after their signing, and the unmet hopes for social justice. Twenty-five years after the peace accords that ended the Central… Read More ›
A Tax Man Went After Guatemala’s Elites. Then They Hit Back.
Frank Jack Daniel spoke to people on all sides for a Reuters Special Report about what happened when Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, who took over Guatemala’s tax agency in 2016, took on a previously untouchable set of targets, and the… Read More ›
Social Insecurity: The Case of IGSS-Pisa in Guatemala
Alex Papadovassilakis wrote up, recently, in InSight Crime, his investigation into serious levels of corruption into Guatemala’s social security system. The levels of corruption amongst the elites in Guatemala continue to stagger. It’s like the word ‘enough’ does not exist… Read More ›
Impunity Watch – complaint by victims to the UN
Impunity Watch Guatemala posted a tweet with a very short video. In the context of 25 Years Of Peace (#25AñosDeLaPaz) in #Guatemala we share the complaint presented by the victims of the armed conflict to the @UNHumanRights office against the… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 