Amnesty International have just issued the following urgent action on behalf of Mateo Lopez, a trades unions from the Health Trade Union. He has been very active in denouncing corruption in the health service and has also been involved in… Read More ›
Justice
The Disappearance of Edgar Fernando García
At the end of October another crack was opened in the wall of impunity: there was a further conviction for forced disappearance. That is the third success for justice, along with the El Jute and Choatalum cases. The bare facts… Read More ›
Exhumations at La Verbena: The Time has Come, with this Evidence, to seek Justice
“Members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) have now been working for seven months on the landmark exhumations at La Verbena Cemetery. Without a doubt, this is the most complex and ambitious project in search of the 45,000 detained-disappeared,… Read More ›
Wrenching Testimony and a Historic Sentence: US Court Convicts Dos Erres Perpetrator for Lying about Role in Massacre.
We were recently notified of this Kate Doyle article on the National Security Archive site. History was made yesterday (September 17, 2010) when a U.S. District Court Judge in Southern Florida, William J. Zloch, sentenced former Guatemalan special forces soldier… Read More ›
La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia
A good friend went to see the premier showing in Guatemala City, back in April, of the film by Uli Stelzner that the blog featured previously, La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia (‘archives of a tragedy’). She sent me… Read More ›
A question of disappearance
It is rare that Guatemala gets any attention in the chambers of Westminster, so I was pleased to see that a parliamentary question has been asked about it recently. During the fourteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council a… Read More ›
An inside look into the exhumations of Guatemala: Panzos
The years between 1978 and 1982 were the most brutal of the Guatemalan civil war culminating in ethnic cleansing campaigns now labeled as Genocide by the UN truth commission (CEH). With varying styles, the Romeo Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt… Read More ›
CICIG – a model for others to follow
The lamentable resignation of Carlos Castresana, head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, better known by its initials as CICIG, has focussed attention on this important body. We should not forget how unique it is, as you can… Read More ›
Guatemala heeds CIDH and orders suspension of mining
Right on the deadline given by the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights (CIDH, in Spanish) for compliance, the Guatemalan government has responded positively to their request that mining activities at the Marlin mine be suspended. Earlier in the year the… Read More ›
Selecting a new Attorney General
We received a message from laguatemalgringa notifying us of guatemalavisible – which styles itself as a collaborative effort to bring together the will, energy and enthusiasm of diverse civil society groups seeking to strengthen the Guatemalan justice system. We noted… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 