In the past year, the Maya have been on the news because the Mayan Long Count Calendar will reach the end of a cycle. Sensationalist news linked this end of cycle to a prophecy that warns us about the eminent… Read More ›
Indigenous peoples
In Memoriam: Adolfo Ich Chamán
James Rodríguez of MiMundo has put together this special multimedia entry commemorating the third anniversary of the murder of Adolfo Ich Chamán, Q’eqchi’ Mayan schoolteacher, recognised anti-mining leader, and land tenure activist from El Estor, Guatemala. Mr. Ich Chamán was… Read More ›
Language, Identity, Inclusion
In the UK, many local and national government services are promoted in other languages other than the ‘home’ languages of English, Scots Gaelic, and Welsh. It is recognised that in order to reach people you need to reach out in… Read More ›
The Indigenous, Peasant and Popular March arrives to Guatemala City
“After 9 days and 212 kilometers, the Indigenous, Campesino and Popular March for the defense of Mother Earth, against evictions, criminalization, and in favor of Integrated Rural Development, arrived to the center of the Capital City. According to members of… 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 ›
In Guatemala, the oligarchs profit from the Maya civilisation
So titled is an interesting article by Grégory Lassalle on Le Monde Diplomatique’s Spanish website. The article uses the exhibition of Maya artefacts currently showing at the museum of Quai Branly, in Paris, to highlight the fact that oligarch businesses… Read More ›
Racism and the Race for Natural Resources
Here is a reflection from GSN accompanier Tanya. Entering 2011, an election year for Guatemala, political and social actors are being targeted more frequently and, in the midst of the increasing levels of violence, the land issue rages on. Human… Read More ›
It Was Heaven That They Burned
I came across this essay by Greg Grandin in The Nation which, apparently, was commissioned as a preface to a new edition of ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú‘. However, the essay was excluded. It is still interesting reading for those who have… Read More ›
Guatemalan Lynching; a symptom of postwar insecurity and racist leadership
Another great article from GSN accompanier Sam… Implications of the findings of the UN High Commission on Guatemala. On Wednesday 24th of March 2010 the UN Deputy High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang gave an analysis of the status of Guatemala’s… Read More ›
Jesus Tecu Osorio wins the 2010 Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award
You may have noticed that we put up a call for letters of support for Jesus Tecu Osorio as a nominee for the Baldwin Medal. Over the years GSN has had a great deal of contact with Jesus and we… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 