Renata Avila writes in the Global Voices website about the recent murder of Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima. Despite an opening of some democratic space in Guatemala, threats against human rights defenders continue to increase. — The murder of 22-year-old Jeremy… Read More ›
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Murder of Young Assistant from Guatemalan Environmental Organization is Evidence of Escalating Risk to Human Rights Defenders
This on the TahoeonTrial website. (Ottawa/Toronto/Vancouver/Reno/Washington/Guatemala) North American organizations are dismayed and deeply troubled by the execution-style murder of 22 year-old Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS),… Read More ›
CALAS denounces the murder of colleague Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima
The Center for Environmental and Social Legal Action of Guatemala (CALAS) denounces the murder of Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the General Director Yuri Melini. Below is the translated urgent action and original statement in Spanish. CALAS – Urgent… Read More ›
International Solidarity with Women in the Fight for Land and the Environment in Latin America
September 29, 2016 We, the undersigned, express our solidarity with Angelica Choc and family after gunshots were fired against her home on Friday, September 16, 2016. The attack occurred just after midnight. Four bullets impacted the walls of her home, where… Read More ›
Indigenous communities mobilize to defend Guatemala’s forests from loggers
Jeff Abbott writes in the Waging Nonviolence website about indigenous communities protecting their forests from logging interests. Across Guatemala, indigenous communities are organizing to challenge logging in the country’s vast forests. These communities are concerned with the impact that both… Read More ›
Nim Ajpu: Indigenous lawyers who are changing the face of Guatemala
Manuela Picq writes in the Intercontinental Cry magazine website about the Association of Maya Lawyers and Notaries in Guatemala. Nim Ajpu is a name that’s known to all Quiché Maya Peoples. A nahual or spirit that accompanies and protects us… Read More ›
La Puya – La Antorcha de la Dignidad (The Torch of Dignity)
September the 15th is Guatemala’s Independence Day and is celebrated by marches, formal activities, and patriotic symbols. You cannot avoid the proliferation of the national flag across the capital and in the towns. Like every nationalist project, it is the… Read More ›
Guatemalans’ Fight Against Rogue Canadian Mining Giant Heats Up
Guatemalan communities form the area of Santa Cruz del Quiche unanimously vote against resource extraction on their lands. | Photo: Courtesy James Rodriguez, MiMundo.org Communities in Guatemala have repeatedly voiced their opposition to a Tahoe Resources silver mine. The company… Read More ›
Myrna Mack’s Daughter Appointed Guatemala Health Minister
Guatemala’s newest minister marks a break from the country’s political elite as she is a self-described leftist, Telesur reports. Recently, in a surprising move, Guatemala’s military brass-linked president’s new health minister is the daughter of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist assassinated… Read More ›
Protect Lolita Chávez for her defense of natural resources
The following alert is from IM-Defensoras and can be viewed here. Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, an active membre of the Council of the Ki’che’ Peoples (CPK), is a woman human rights defender who has constantly spoken out against acts of… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 