El Faro English presented an English version of a piece by Edward Grattan relating to the tiral and sentencing of those found responsible for the deaths of the 41 young girls in the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de… Read More ›
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Regina José Galindo, Performance Artist: “In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth”
She walked barefoot, leaving footprints of human blood outside the Constitutional Court. She underwent surgery to reconstruct her hymen and become a virgin again. She had a doctor injected her in the mouth with anesthesia as she attempted to read… Read More ›
Military Diary Case: “Every judicial delay prolongs the never-ending grief”
Andrea Godínez has written on Agencia Ocote about the threats to the judicial process in the Military Diary case and the pain being felt by family members of the those forcibly disappeared by the Guatemala state because of these threats…. Read More ›
The Books the CIA Burned in Guatemala
Burning books, part of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, had strong support from local allies. Guatemala, after the fall of Jacobo Árbenz in 1954, points to a common practice in Central America: the violent repression of the free… Read More ›
GHRC – Attacks on human rights defenders continue in Guatemala
GHRC writes that in the past month attacks on human rights defenders, including journalists, have continued. Journalist Carlos Choc has suffered acts of intimidation and has been the victim of a defamation campaign. These acts are believed to be linked… Read More ›
Pregnant and trapped: Guatemala’s child sex abuse crisis
In late 2022, Anja Popp presented an episode of Unreported World which looked at teen pregnancies among Indigenous Maya as a result of rape and sexual assault. There is a silent crisis of abuse and child pregnancies robbing a generation… Read More ›
This is how survivors and victims’ families experienced the “bittersweet” ruling in the Hogar Seguro case
María José Longo Bautista has written on the website of Agencia Ocote a piece on the reaction of friends and relatives, of the victims, to the verdicts handed down in the Hogar Seguro case. The Agencia Ocote website hosts a… Read More ›
Six former officials convicted in Guatemala for the deaths of 41 minors in a fire
The teenagers were being held in a state-run home in 2017. The court orders an investigation into former president Jimmy Morales. Sofía Menchú writes in El País América on the outcome of the trial against state functionaries with regard to… Read More ›
New York Times: The 36 Maya Achí Women who fought back
The New York Times recently presented an interactive photo-essay on the 36 Maya Achí women and their struggle to access justice for the human rights violations the women suffered during Guatemala’s Internal Armed Conflict. . The piece containing photographs and… Read More ›
After 13 years of resistance against mining, La Puya reaffirms its commitment to defending the territory.
Earlier this year, La Puya celebrated its 13th anniversary as a Comunidad en Resistencia in oppostion to the imposition of a gold mine on its territory. Derik Mazariegos posted an article on the celebrations in Prensa Comunitaria. On March 2,… Read More ›
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