After almost nine months in office, Bernardo Arévalo’s decisions regarding his cabinet have shown that they did not really expect to govern. Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English on the difficulties that the government of Bernardo Arévalo continues to… Read More ›
Impunity
GHRC: July Update
The July Update from the Guatemala Human Rights Commisison (GHRC) was recently shared. In hopeful news, Indigenous land rights activist Lolita Chávez has returned to her home in the K’iche after seven years of exile. In 2017, she suffered an… Read More ›
Honouring Indigenous resistance in Totonicapán: interview with Maya K’iché exile Lucía Ixchíu
Linda Etchart, for Latin America Bureau, interviewed environment defender Lucía Ixchíu, of the K´iché Maya of Totonicapán, a community famous for its ‘48 Cantons’ resistance movement. Totonicapán was the second most important city of the K’iché and the headquarters of… Read More ›
Consuelo Porras Stokes Political Turmoil Amid Guatemalan Court Elections
Álvaro Montenegro writes in El Faro English about the extraordinary situation in Guatemala regarding the machinations of the Attorney General in seeking, effectively, to criminalise the President Bernardo Arévalo. He, on the other hand, is trying to have her removed… Read More ›
Indigenous People’s Rights – The theory versus the reality
Lorna Ní Shúilleabháin, a former field volunteer with PBI in Guatemala, writes on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, August 9th, on the theory of Indigenous rights against the reality in Guatemala. This year to celebrate the International Day… Read More ›
Guatemala: judicial kleptocracy at war with Indigenous peoples
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 ›
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 ›
Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ Denounce Eviction Threats of New Communities in El Estor
Aldo Santiago writes in Avispa Midia about the threat of forced displacement facing Indigenous Q’eqchi’ communities in the Polochic Valley. Resource extraction, for the benefit of local elites and the international market, continues to take a heavy toll on Indigenous… 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 ›
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