Indigenous people are rallying to defend the country’s constitution and uphold the election of Bernardo Arévalo as president Sergio Ramírez writes an Opinion, in El País English, on the challenges facing democracy in Guatemala and the resistance to corruption being… Read More ›
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“We are not trespassers: this is our land”: Agrarian Conflict & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Alta Verapaz
Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) recently held a launch of a report drawn up by a group of international human rights lawyers who travelled to Alta Verapaz earlier this year on a fact-finding mission. They went there to to meet… Read More ›
CALDH: Coup d’État in Guatemala
CALDH (Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos – Human Rights Legal Action Center) recently tweeted this infographic regarding the coup d’état (Golpe De Estado) being carried out in Guatemala. Translation from the top left, clockwise, against symbols: BookBreaking… Read More ›
What’s behind efforts to strip Guatemala’s president-elect of his immunity?
Critics fear President-elect Bernardo Arevalo could be blocked from taking office amid a probe into university protests. Jeff Abbott writes in Al Jazeera about the current attempts by the Guatemala state to block the anti-corruption president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, from taking… Read More ›
Guatemala: Renewed Attacks Against Democracy
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a joint statement in relation to the ongoing abuse of the law by the government to silence critics and anti-corruption activists. Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office, Congress, and… Read More ›
Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor requests withdrawal of immunity from prosecution of Bernardo Arevalo and Karin Herrera
The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) filed six requests for impeachment, seeking the authorization of a criminal investigation against the elected presidential pair and deputies who spoke in favor of the San Carlos movement, which rejected the imposition of Walter Mazariegos… Read More ›
LASA demands respect for academic freedom and the 2023 election results in Guatemala
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has issued a condemnatory statement regarding the criminalisation and arrest of civil society leaders in Guatemala. The Pacto de Corruptos continues to use underhand ways to block the legal change over of power to… Read More ›
Public Prosecutor’s Office Continues Criminalization of Popular Dissent, Election Winners
The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) posts about the Guatemala state, in thrall to Los Corruptos, continuing to criminalise democracy while seeking to prohibit the democratic winner of the Presidential elections this year, Bernardo Arévalo, from taking office. The… Read More ›
While under Threat, Electoral Tribunal Considers Protecting Semilla until Inauguration
Roman Gressier writes in El Faro about the continuing attempt by the Guatemala state to stop the January inauguration of the victor of the recent presidential election, Bernardo Arévalo. The latest attempt relates to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and… Read More ›
Claudia González – demands for her freedom
This from the website of Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) in response to the arrest of lawyer, Claudia González. On August 28, at the behest of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and on the order of Judge Jimi Bremer, police arrested… Read More ›
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