Mary Jo McConahay writes in the National Catholic Reporter on the trial of former Gen. Manuel Benedicto Lucas García on charges of genocide. Lucas has already been convicted of crimes against humanity, for the massacre of more than 1,200 Indigenous… Read More ›
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Long Live La Puya: Organizations Around the World Celebrate 12 Year Anniversary of La Puya Peaceful Resistance
It is now 12 years since the peaceful resistance of La Puya came into being in response to the attempt to set up a gold mine north of Guatemala City and against the wishes of the local people. The ‘La… Read More ›
‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly
Paloma de Dinechin wrote in The Guardian recently about the struggle that small and isolated Maya communities are facing in Ixquisis, a remote area close to the Mexican border. A struggle against global capital and led, in the main, by… Read More ›
GHRC – El Quetzal
The Winter edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. It features the leadership of Guatemala’s Indigenous in the struggle to defend democracy with pieces by Marta Estela Gutiérrez Montúfar and Isabel Solis…. Read More ›
An Anti-Democratic Mafia Is Isolating Guatemala
Vaclav Mašek Sánchez writes in El Faro English on the continuing attempts to subvert democracy in Guatemala by the corrupt compact – El Pacto De Corruptos. The use of U.S. Treasury Magnitsky sanctions and the threat of turning into a… Read More ›
“We are not trespassers: this is our land”: Agrarian Conflict & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Alta Verapaz
Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) recently held a launch of a report drawn up by a group of international human rights lawyers who travelled to Alta Verapaz earlier this year on a fact-finding mission. They went there to to meet… Read More ›
Belgium to judge 5 Guatemalan ex-military and officials for crimes against humanity
Impunity Watch have posted a note related to the trial against Guatemalan military and officials for crimes against humanity. The names are, sadly, all too familiar. On December 4 2023 in Leuven, Belgium, a trial will begin against five former… Read More ›
CALDH: Coup d’État in Guatemala
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 ›
Public Prosecutor’s Office Continues Criminalization of Popular Dissent, Election Winners
The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) posts about the Guatemala state, in thrall to Los Corruptos, continuing to criminalise democracy while seeking to prohibit the democratic winner of the Presidential elections this year, Bernardo Arévalo, from taking office. The… Read More ›
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 ›