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• Honouring Indigenous resistance in Totonicapán: interview with Maya K’iché exile Lucía Ixchíu

  By kevodell on August 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Linda Etchart, for Latin America Bureau, interviewed environment defender Lucía Ixchíu, of the K´iché Maya of Totonicapán, a community famous for its ‘48 Cantons’ resistance movement. Totonicapán was the second most important city of the K’iché and the headquarters of… Read More ›

• Consuelo Porras Stokes Political Turmoil Amid Guatemalan Court Elections

  By kevodell on August 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Álvaro Montenegro writes in El Faro English about the extraordinary situation in Guatemala regarding the machinations of the Attorney General in seeking, effectively, to criminalise the President Bernardo Arévalo. He, on the other hand, is trying to have her removed… Read More ›

• Indigenous People’s Rights – The theory versus the reality

  By kevodell on August 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Lorna Ní Shúilleabháin, a former field volunteer with PBI in Guatemala, writes on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, August 9th, on the theory of Indigenous rights against the reality in Guatemala. This year to celebrate the International Day… Read More ›

• Guatemala: judicial kleptocracy at war with Indigenous peoples

  By kevodell on August 9, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Daniel Cerqueira writes in the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) blog on the manipulation of the judiciary by elements of the Pacto de Corruptos and its effect on Indigenous communities and their rights to land and challenges for the… Read More ›

• Genocide in the Ixil Triangle – Forensic Architecture

  By kevodell on August 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London and their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. FA was commissioned by Guatemalan NGO, the… Read More ›

• Analyzing The Role And Ascent To Power Of The Military In Guatemala

  By kevodell on July 18, 2024 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) shares an article written in exile by Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez. This in-depth study traces the history of corruption and impunity in Guatemala from the period of the revolutionary government of Jacobo Árbenz to… Read More ›

• Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ Denounce Eviction Threats of New Communities in El Estor

  By kevodell on July 18, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Aldo Santiago writes in Avispa Midia about the threat of forced displacement facing Indigenous Q’eqchi’ communities in the Polochic Valley. Resource extraction, for the benefit of local elites and the international market, continues to take a heavy toll on Indigenous… Read More ›

• Can Arévalo deliver his father’s revolutionary promise?

  By kevodell on July 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Tim May writes in Labour Hub on the challenges facing Bernardo Arévalo as president of Guatemala in following his father’s footsteps. On June 27th 1954 the Guatemalan Revolution was nipped in the bud by a US-orchestrated coup d’état. During this… Read More ›

• “Despite the new government, the advance of mining in Guatemala is already decided”

  By kevodell on July 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Roman Gressier interviewed journalist Carlos Choc about his criminalisation by the state and the continuing struggle against rapacious resource extraction companies stirrping Guatemala of its wealth. Carlos Choc is Maya Q’eqchi’ and a high-profile practitioner of periodismo comunitario (community journalism)’…. Read More ›

• Guatemala Mourns Murder of Peasants’ Rights Defenders

  By kevodell on July 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Grassroots International posted a press release into the murders of José Alberto Domingo Montejo and Marcelo Yaxón Pablo, within the context of attacks on grassroots social movements by those allied to corrupt state actors. Tensions between Guatemala’s right-wing Pacto de… Read More ›

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