The story of Jesus Tecu Osorio and the massacres of the Chixoy Dam project have been followed and told here on GSN previously. Al Jazeera carries an opinion piece by Lauren Carasik and Grahame Russell on the continuing wait for… Read More ›
Justice
Justice and Accountability news
Two recent items from NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) highlight the genocide cases and also the recent attacks against the Attorney General – the latter being part of a campaign against human rights defenders in general… Read More ›
Guatemala: Archives on Decades of Police Terror Accessible Online
“Millions of documents from the Guatemalan national police archive, shedding light on torture, forced disappearances and murders committed during the1960-1996 counterinsurgency war in this country, are now available on-line thanks to a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.”… Read More ›
“This land is ours”
“The villagers had no idea that their land had been nationalised in 1984 – a fact that was concealed from them for 28 years. They are perplexed, shocked, and angry. In the 1980s the area was scorched with genocide and… Read More ›
‘As Firm as a Tree’
On July 7th 2010, gunmen entered the home of Diodora Hernández (above) and shot her in the eye. Diodora worked with a group of women active in defending community water resources from Canadian mining company Goldcorp. Goldcorp has… Read More ›
Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues
“The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have… Read More ›
“I want someone to show me there was genocide”
An interesting blog entry came along on the Central American Politics blog page regarding the upcoming Presidential elections and stories about Otto Pérez Molina, the front runner. The elections are due to be held on that most of iconic dates… Read More ›
Death Threats in Guatemala: The Dangers of Justice-Seeking
“Guatemala is a land of tremendous contrasts; a place of incredible beauty, wonderful people and heart-stopping terror. Our final evening on a recent Skylight Pictures visit to this “land of eternal spring” starts simply enough, but by the end of… Read More ›
Trial for Guatemala Massacre Concludes, but U.S. Military Aid Continues
Twenty eight years after the massacre of 251 indigenous farmers, I found myself silently accompanying human rights organizations scrambling to identify the remains. The request for a daily international presence from the organization of families of the disappeared in Guatemala… Read More ›
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