CALDH (Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos – Human Rights Legal Action Center) recently tweeted this infographic regarding the coup d’état (Golpe De Estado) being carried out in Guatemala. Translation from the top left, clockwise, against symbols: BookBreaking… Read More ›
Legal
While under Threat, Electoral Tribunal Considers Protecting Semilla until Inauguration
Roman Gressier writes in El Faro about the continuing attempt by the Guatemala state to stop the January inauguration of the victor of the recent presidential election, Bernardo Arévalo. The latest attempt relates to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and… Read More ›
The pedagogy of communal politics in Guatemala
A recent Opinion piece in Ojalá seeks to place the current national strike/blockade (paro nacional) within the context of oppression, indigenous solidarity and ages-old communal links. A communal mobilization of national scope has brought everyday impunity and extractivism in Guatemala… Read More ›
An uprising for democracy in Guatemala
Sandra Cuffe writes in Ojalá about the demonstrations taking place in Guatemala City in support of democracy and against the pacto de corruptos. These demonstrations are part of the national wave of strikes and blockades that have affected the country… Read More ›
How Guatemala Defied the Odds
Rachel A. Schwartz and Anita Isaacs write in the Journal of Democracy about the Presidential election in Guatemala and how, despite the anti-democracrtic wrangling of the corrupt state and its allies (pacto de corruptos), the result returned a huge surprise… Read More ›
“The Guatemalan Attorney General should resign in Christian conscience”
“I can not turn a deaf ear to the cries of a people who for centuries have demanded that their voice be heard.” In El Faro English, Roman Gressier talks with Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini, the Bishop of Huehuetenango, in the… Read More ›
A Besieged University Movement Joins the National Strike in Guatemala
Roman Gressier writes in El Faro English on the student movement and how they are trying to navigate the the national strike with what seems the open hostility of the university authorities. Just past nine on Friday night, some fifty… Read More ›
GHRC: Guatemala Democracy and Human Rights Update
Earlier this month the Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) gave an update on the situation in Guatemala, ranging from the convening of a national strike, the Public Ministry’s raids on the offices of the Supreme Election Tribunal (TSE), and corruption… Read More ›
“Dialogue with Indigenous peoples must be part of the democratic springtime in Guatemala”
In El Faro English, Roman Gressier talks with the Huxi Hurak (president) of the Xinka Parliament, Aleisar Arana, in the midst of the national strike/blockade being carried out by, primarily, indigenous authorities across the country in opposition to the attempts… Read More ›
‘Fighting a huge monster’: mine battle in Guatemala became a playbook for polluters
Indigenous defenders opposing the Marlin mine were criminalised by a corporation and its state allies Nina Lakhani writes in The Guardian about the community struggle against the Canadian gold-mining firm Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, in the west… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 