Women-only bus in Guatemala City. – Danilo Valladares/IPS ‘We are all safer here; it’s great because this way there are no men groping you,’ Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a… Read More ›
Justice
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 ›
Survivors give testimony of the massacres of 1982 and 1983
"Two survivors are among the witnesses in the trial of Héctor Mario López Fuentes, former Army Chief of Staff of the Defense, in the period of 1982 to 1983. The Human Rights Prosecutor accuses the former head of the Army… Read More ›
Oil Companies and the Subservience of the Government
An interesting article by Emma Volonté found on Upside Down World suggests nefarious dealings of a resource extractive company in Guatemala. This should not necessarily be news as we have highlighted many times the workings of, for example, Goldcorp and… Read More ›
Accused of Genocide
Last week, General Héctor Mario López Fuentes was captured in Guatemala City, twenty-nine years after having initiated the execution of Plan Victoria 82, developed by the Army Chief of Staff and Efraín Ríos Montt’s de facto government. He is accused… Read More ›
Union Fenosa – from San Marcos to London
UNION FENOSA EN GUATEMALA by arenaentrelosdedos In the smoke and mirrors of global finance, private equity firms have had a major relationship in a majority of firms that defaulted on their debt in 2009 thereby contributing on a grand scale… Read More ›
Francisco Goldman on WGBH
Here is an interesting and fascinating interview, by Maria Hinojosa, with Francisco Goldman on WGBH. He wrote several novels before his great non-fiction book, The Art of Political Murder, where he reconstructs and investigates the murder of Guatemalan’s human rights… Read More ›
‘A state under siege: elites, criminal networks and institutional reform in Guatemala’
In this year of the Guatemala Presidential election, it is easy to get caught up on the violence and absurdities that generally characterise these events – it is reasonable to think of violence and absurdity being the ‘maldición guatemalteca’. Ironically,… Read More ›
National police force, paramilitaries and local big business join forces
News from our friends in Banana Link highlights an event where the national police force, paramilitaries and local big business joined forces to brutally and criminally evict local farmers and their families in Alta Verapaz. We have mentioned before, here… Read More ›
The Bamaca Case
A new website/blog has been set up regarding the case of Efraín Bamaca, featured here before, which includes all the documentation relating to the case. The site also includes a declaration by Jennifer Harbury, relating to the case. The website… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 