Simon Granovsky-Larsen has written about the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz in this article posted on the LAB website. It was originally posted on the NACLA site. It is another useful contribution to the discussion about the reasons for… Read More ›
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More on the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz
More articles on the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz as well as a short film. The AFP film was made by Greg Brosnan who was also responsible for the Guatemalan immigrant film In the Shadow of the Raid, featured… Read More ›
Another arrest made in Dos Erres case
As we reported back in September, former kaibil Gilberto Jordan was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Florida for lying on his naturalisation papers. He hid his role in the Dos Erres massacre to obtain US citizenship. Recently, another former… Read More ›
How to view the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz
The news from Guatemala, especially from Alta Verapaz, is something to dread in this year of election, especially with the notion that this will impact on the popular vote come November. The situation provides the ideal opportunity for someone to… 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 ›
Massacre remembered – current struggles in mind?
Exactly 32 years ago today a massacre took place in the small town of Panzos, in Alta Verapaz. A group of campesinos had gathered in the town square to protest about the depredations of local landowners, among them the town’s… Read More ›
“The palm has more right to water than us”
The psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that humans have a hierarchy of needs, from the most basic, required for our very survival, to what he called the need for self-actualisation. These needs are often visualised as a pyramid, with the most… Read More ›
‘Our lives can be cut short at a stroke’
‘This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke’. So titled an article by Danilo Valladares for Inter Press Service. As… Read More ›
Guatemalan communities reject mining in local territory
As multinational companies continue to seek licences for mineral exploitation in Guatemala, time and again local communities reject these initiatives in popular consultas comunitarias. Not only do they site the environmental damage that will be done to their lands, and the lack… Read More ›
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