Eduardo Campos Lima wrote recently in America: The Jesuit Review about the increasingly active response to government and elite corruption especially as seen through Indigenous mobilisations. Interestingly, in presenting a ‘split’ in the opposition in, for example, town and country,… Read More ›
Indigenous peoples
“It’s not tiring for us to be here”: Anti-mining resistance in Guatemala
Avispa Midia published a piece on a non-violent, anti-mining resistance encampment situated in El Estor. The camp is looking to highlight violence being carried out against the local Q’eqchi’ people and has garnered support from other indigenous groups in Guatemala…. Read More ›
The struggle for water, forests, land and the defence of the collective does not end with criminalisation
ACOGUATE has published a piece about the struggle of the Maya Ch’orti’ people in the face of continuous attacks, both physical and legal, the latter especially through the criminalisation of activists in defence of land and water. For defending water,… Read More ›
GHRC Updates: State Accountability – Laguna Larga, and the Massacre at La Cumbre de Alaska
The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has recently posted a couple of updates we wanted to share. The first is on the situation at Laguna Larga, and the second on the massacre at La Cumbre de Alaska, which took place… Read More ›
Guatemala: The Violence Against CODECA Should Cease
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and UDEFEGUA released a denunciation following the assassination of Ramón López Jiménez, a community leader with CODECA – ‘Committee for Campesino Development’ (El Comité de Desarrollo Campesino) With the murder… Read More ›
UDEFEGUA denounces assaults at exhumation
ALERT We denounce assaults in the exhumation for the massacre of 116 children in 1988, in Cunén. This Tuesday, 28th September 2021, former civil defence patrollers (ex-PAC), blocked and obstructed the start of an exhumation programmed for today in the… Read More ›
Guatemalan Court rules former Senior Military & Police must face Justice over War Crimes
The Military Diary Case European Support Network (Red Europea de Solidaridad Caso Diario Militar) issued a press release, yesterday, in response to the news that the presiding judge in the Death Squad Diary case (Caso Diario Militar) has stated that… Read More ›
Still missing
Thousands of labour activists were disappeared during the Guatemalan civil war. As a trial of 12 alleged death squad members begins, Canadians with links to the missing hope for justice. Erin Ellis writes movingly and, in some cases graphically, on… Read More ›
GHRC – Human Rights Update
GHRC recently published (18th Sep ’21) its latest Human Rights Update. Constitutional Court Ruling Leaves Judge Erika Aifán Open to ChargesOn September 16, the Constitutional Court rejected an injunction filed by high-risk court judge Erika Aifán, a ruling which leaves… Read More ›
Guatemala’s Indigenous Communities Are Still Fighting for Their Rights
Jeff Abbott writes a column in The Progressive, The Other Americans, and this is from his latest piece. September 15 marks 200 years since the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica gained independence from… Read More ›
