Leonor Hurtado of the Institute for Food and Development Policy – Food First writes about the genocide being carried out in Guatemala with land and food as the means. “In today’s Guatemala, land and resource control is increasingly in the… Read More ›
Environment
Rubén Herrera Released from Prison!
NISGUA reports, here, that Rubén Herrera, unjustly imprisoned since March 15 for his resistance to the Cambalam hydro-electric project, has been released from custody and cleared of all charges in one of two legal processes against him. While this case… Read More ›
Criminalization and Persecution of Political Prisoner, Rubén Herrera
Since Friday, March 15, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), Rubén Herrera, has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam… Read More ›
‘La Puya’: The Rhythm of Resistance
On March 3rd, this year, La Comunidad en Resistencia celebrated its first anniversary of non-violent resistance to the attempt to start mining for gold between the municipalities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José Del Golfo, on the road between… Read More ›
Lawsuit against mining company to proceed in Canadian courts
“In an important precedent-setting development for the accountability of Canadian mining companies for alleged overseas human rights abuses, victims of rape and murder at a Guatemalan mine are now able to sue a Canadian mining company in Canadian courts. Guatemalan… Read More ›
Report into mine at San José del Golfo
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Totonicapán: Tension in Guatemala’s Indigenous Hinterland
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. It recently published a report into the killings at Totonicapán featured
World Bank must pay for Guatemala ‘terror loans’
In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Guatemala’s people lived through one of the most brutal periods of the twentieth century – a government-run terror campaign that turned the country into horror film. Recent research by Jubilee Debt Campaign has… Read More ›
Golden Lie: Resistance against mining in Guatemala
“They lied to us, the gold man and the ministry of energy and mines lied to us about the project. They said we were crazy, that nothing was going to happen but we just found out about one year and… Read More ›
Totonicapán rising – Letter to the President
We gave a short explanation of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán previously which you can read <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/totonicap%c3%a1n-rising/'iche Maya that has endured for hundreds of years, coordinating the indigenous mayorships of 48 communities, exercising self-governance in matters including environmental management… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 