The Convergencia por los Derechos Humanos (The Human Rights ‘Meeting Point’) issued a statement, published by UDEFEGUA, on the 21st January in relation to the violence meted out to the Honduran migrants over the previous weekend. Any errors in translation… Read More ›
Solidarity in Action
Guatemalan forces disperse migrant caravan
Historic elite-level corruption in Honduras, narc-trafficking, and brutal internal violence, much of it state-sponsored, as well as the effects of climate change, especially as witnessed by the successive hurricanes that battered the country, Eta and Iota, within the unprecedented situation… Read More ›
PBI-Guatemala visits the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya
Brent Patterson writes in the PBI-Canada website about a recent visit to La Puya – ‘La Comunidad en Resistencia’ – as part of their accompaniment of the community fighting against the corrupt imposition of a gold mine on their territory,… Read More ›
PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH law firm at hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire
Brent Patterson has written in the PBI website about the accompaniment carried out by PBI with the Human Rights law firm, BDH, at the hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire. In February 2019, 12 people were detained on charges… Read More ›
For Indigenous Reporters, Covering Protests, Land Disputes Can Lead to Arrest
Dalia Faheid writes on VOA News about some of the challenges facing indigenous journalists covering land disputes. For nearly three months Anastasia Mejía, a radio journalist and a member of the Maya K’iche’ indigenous group in Guatemala, has been under… Read More ›
Report: Advances in Escobal Mine Consultation Overshadowed by Constitutional Crisis in Guatemala
Ellen Moore introduces a new report published on the Earthworks website. More than two years after the court ordered a consultation with the Xinka Indigenous people over the future of the Escobal silver mine, the process has yet to move… Read More ›
The Future of War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala
The Open Society Justice Initiative is ending its monitoring of grave crimes trials in Guatemala through its International Justice Monitor website. This is the final post. Guatemala Solidarity Network wishes to thank OSJI for its contribution to the struggle for… Read More ›
Guatemala: #NoNosPela
The Red Nation recently posted a podcast, guest-hosted by Giovanni Batz, and featuring Andrea Ixchíu, Floridalma Boj Lopez, and Alejandro Flores. They discuss the recent Guatemalan protests and uprising, which were sparked by the recent approval of a budget that… Read More ›
PLQE – ¿Que pasó en Guatemala?
The latest ¿Que pasó en Guatemala?, in English, arrived from PLQE, the Spanish and K’iche’ school, based in Xela. Congress approves the largest national budget in history behind closed doors. The morning of November 17, officers from the National Civil… Read More ›
The Afternoon Giammattei Unleashed the Fury
If one looks at the images of the attacks on the Congress building last weekend, you can see perpetrators wielding expandable batons, normal police issue crowd control weapons. This, in addition to narratives highlighting state infiltration of the demonstration and… Read More ›
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