As reported earlier GSN is organising a speaker tour from 8 to 26 November by Iduvina Hernandez. More detail about Iduvina is provided below, and following that the current calendar of events all over the UK, which you might be… Read More ›
Culture
GSN Speaker Tour in the UK
This is also available as a poster- see attached.
Never Again a Military Parade
Since 1871, the Guatemalan people have been submitted to witness the armed forces caravan through their streets every June 30th – officially observed as Armed Forces Day. Nevertheless, starting in 1999, the HIJOS Collective (acronym for: Sons and Daughters for… Read More ›
In other news…
This blog is contributed to by people who have other lives, and inevitably sometimes the demands mean we miss posting a few things we would have liked to. This happened in May, so I thought I would just post up… Read More ›
Letter to BBC Mundo
There was an interesting article on BBC Mundo the other day, about a compensation programme set up by the Guatemalan government. While this was of interest in its own right, a paragraph near the end of the article stopped me… Read More ›
Army Day or Remembrance Day?
The last day of June every year for the past 137 years has been marked as Army Day in Guatemala. For the previous 136 years this has also been the occasion for a military parade throughout the capital city. However,… Read More ›
Project: Chocolá Archaeology
We were recently contacted with information about this interesting archaeological project: "The project’s research focuses on a major, hitherto overlooked, and very long-lived ancient Maya city located in the heart of the seminal Southern Maya Zone (SMZ). At an elevation… Read More ›
Guatemalan Biologist wins a Whitley Award for Nature Conservation
I recently visited Wakehurst Place, a beautiful garden in West Sussex, but also home to the Millennium Seed Bank. The seed bank is aiming to collect and store seed of ten percent of the world’s flowering plants by 2010. In… Read More ›
PBS Documentary on National Police Archives
We have reported before about the discovery and analysis of the National Police archive. Whilst there never was going to be the smoking gun of the direct, explicit and written order to disappear someone, nevertheless a careful study of the… Read More ›
Niña de Guatemala: The Engima of José Martí
Jose Marti has to be one of those cultural enigmas you come up against as an outsider in Guatemala. When you read or hear the poem ‘La niña de Guatemala’, perhaps like the hundreds of Guatemalan school kids who learn… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 