Coban exhumation “On February 27th, 2012, The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) began an exhumation process inside the former Military Garrison of Coban, one of the country’s largest cities. After three months of work in search of more victims from… Read More ›
Genocide
Q&A: ‘We Are on the Road to Overcoming Impunity’ in Guatemala
Danilo Valladares interviews Rosalina Tuyuc, winner of the Niwano Peace Prize. This was on the Global Issues website and is from Inter Press Service. ‘To achieve peace, it is necessary for the truth to come out, and for the victims… Read More ›
Preliminary Hearing in Case against José Efraín Ríos Montt
We are again grateful to NISGUA for the following piece. On Thursday, January 26, 2012, in a preliminary hearing, General José Efraín Ríos Montt was linked to the ongoing legal process for genocide and crimes against humanity by the first… Read More ›
“Eternal life to our loved ones” – Interviews with AJR after Ríos Montt hearing
We are grateful to NISGUA for the following piece. An initial court hearing for former General Efraín Ríos Montt, accused of genocide, took place after ten years of work by the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR). The day after… Read More ›
A momentous week in Guatemala?
Certainly one with promise for human rights and the struggle against impunity. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has highlighted two major events – the stand out news that former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been charged with genocide and… Read More ›
‘Headline Today: Guatemala’
‘Päivän otsikko: Guatemala’ (Headline Today: Guatemala) is a documentary from Finnish television from 1983 presenting events taking place in 1982 in Guatemala through the eyes of a US reporter and photographer.The reporter and journalist happen to be Allan Nairn and… Read More ›
“I want someone to show me there was genocide”
An interesting blog entry came along on the Central American Politics blog page regarding the upcoming Presidential elections and stories about Otto Pérez Molina, the front runner. The elections are due to be held on that most of iconic dates… Read More ›
Accused of Genocide
Last week, General Héctor Mario López Fuentes was captured in Guatemala City, twenty-nine years after having initiated the execution of Plan Victoria 82, developed by the Army Chief of Staff and Efraín Ríos Montt’s de facto government. He is accused… Read More ›
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
I went to see the new film by Pamela Yates, who made the widely acclaimed When the Mountains Tremble in 1982. Twenty five years later, she revisits the genocide as, for the first time, indictments are called against the perpetrators…. Read More ›
Film Screening: ‘Granito: How to Nail a Dictator’
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 ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 