Which Way Home The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “ The Beast ”. Director Rebecca Cammisa (Sister Helen) tracks the stories of children… Read More ›
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In the Shadow of the Raid
On Monday 4th January, The Frontline Club is screening the film ‘In the Shadow of the Raid’. Viewing the trailer, this looks like a powerful indictment of US immigration policy. "On May 12, 2008, immigration officials stormed a kosher meatpacking… Read More ›
Peace Brigades International Film Screening and AGM
For those of you interested in accompaniment in Latin America you might be interested in PBI‘s forthcoming AGM at which they’ll be showing a film about their work in Colombia. The screening of the 15th anniversary film produced by the… Read More ›
Video: Interview with Yuri Melini, Environmental Activist
Yuri Melini, Director of CALAS, is an environmental campaigner for many years in Guatemala. Here in this film by Nicolas Bergeron about when he suffered an attempt on his life. Video is in Spanish with French subtitles.
An indictment from the grave.
A murder foretold has convulsed Guatemala’s government. Its investigation will provide a test of whether or not Central America includes a failed state. So begins this article in The Economist. It’s interesting that the article states ‘the murder rate (of nearly 50… Read More ›
The art of creating political crises
Last Sunday, among the now routine roll-call of violent death in Guatemala appeared one name for whom the grave would not be silent. “Good Afternoon, my name is Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano… sadly if you are watching or hearing this message… Read More ›
¿Indígena, garífuna, ladino, español, gringo, chino o árabe?
I came across this wonderful little video on the guate360 website. How we identify ourselves is an important part of understanding who we are. For people in Guatemala, there are at least three possibilities – ladino, indigenous, or Guatemalan. Why… Read More ›
PBS Documentary on National Police Archives
We have reported before about the discovery and analysis of the National Police archive. Whilst there never was going to be the smoking gun of the direct, explicit and written order to disappear someone, nevertheless a careful study of the… Read More ›
Niña de Guatemala: The Engima of José Martí
Jose Marti has to be one of those cultural enigmas you come up against as an outsider in Guatemala. When you read or hear the poem ‘La niña de Guatemala’, perhaps like the hundreds of Guatemalan school kids who learn… Read More ›
BBC Mundo – Feminicide in Guatemala
BBC Mundo has opened up this opportunity to ask questions of three Guatemalan women who are at the forefront of the struggle for justice in the case of feminicide in Guatemala.
Guatemala Solidarity Network 