Daniel Cerqueira writes in the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) blog on the manipulation of the judiciary by elements of the Pacto de Corruptos and its effect on Indigenous communities and their rights to land and challenges for the… Read More ›
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Genocide in the Ixil Triangle – Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London and their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. FA was commissioned by Guatemalan NGO, the… Read More ›
Analyzing The Role And Ascent To Power Of The Military In Guatemala
The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) shares an article written in exile by Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez. This in-depth study traces the history of corruption and impunity in Guatemala from the period of the revolutionary government of Jacobo Árbenz to… Read More ›
Can Arévalo deliver his father’s revolutionary promise?
Tim May writes in Labour Hub on the challenges facing Bernardo Arévalo as president of Guatemala in following his father’s footsteps. On June 27th 1954 the Guatemalan Revolution was nipped in the bud by a US-orchestrated coup d’état. During this… Read More ›
“Despite the new government, the advance of mining in Guatemala is already decided”
Roman Gressier interviewed journalist Carlos Choc about his criminalisation by the state and the continuing struggle against rapacious resource extraction companies stirrping Guatemala of its wealth. Carlos Choc is Maya Q’eqchi’ and a high-profile practitioner of periodismo comunitario (community journalism)’…. Read More ›
Guatemala Mourns Murder of Peasants’ Rights Defenders
Grassroots International posted a press release into the murders of José Alberto Domingo Montejo and Marcelo Yaxón Pablo, within the context of attacks on grassroots social movements by those allied to corrupt state actors. Tensions between Guatemala’s right-wing Pacto de… Read More ›
Arévalo’s Reform Bill to Sack Consuelo Porras Stalls in Gridlocked Congress
Roman Gressier wrote in El Faro English, in May, of the challenges facing the Bernardo Arévalo in seeking to remove Consuelo Porras as the Attorney General. Time was indeed of the essence on Monday, May 6, when Guatemalan President Bernardo… Read More ›
Central America Faces Intense Wildfire Season
Jeff Abbott writes in The Progressive Magazine about the current challenges facing Guatemala with regard to preventing and managing the many forest fires that have been registered during this period of El Niño and being exacerbated by climate change in… Read More ›
Guatemala Reform Agenda Hinges on Crucial High Court Elections
Vaclav Mašek Sánchez writes in El Faro English about the challenges facing Bernardo Arévalo in seeking to deepen democracy in Guatemala, in a structural sense, through the election of magistrates in the country. Since the removal of the CICIG, many… Read More ›
Guatemala Archdiocese a force behind genocide trial of retired general
Mary Jo McConahay writes in the National Catholic Reporter on the trial of former Gen. Manuel Benedicto Lucas García on charges of genocide. Lucas has already been convicted of crimes against humanity, for the massacre of more than 1,200 Indigenous… Read More ›
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