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• Long Live La Puya: Organizations Around the World Celebrate 12 Year Anniversary of La Puya Peaceful Resistance

  By kevodell on April 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The Indigenous Resistance Puts Its Doubts and Hopes in Arévalo’s Hands

  By kevodell on April 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Shortly after Bernardo Arévalo was inaugurated as President, Roman Gressier wrote a piece in El Faro English on the resistance led by Indigenous peoples in ensuring that the will of the people was carried out so that the inauguration took… Read More ›

• ‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly

  By kevodell on April 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Guatemala: From uncertainty to hope

  By kevodell on February 17, 2024 • ( 0 )

  PBI UK takes a closer look at what a new presidency might mean for Indigenous human rights defenders Christina Challis writes on the PBI-UK website about what the new Presidency, of Bernardo Arévalo, might hold for Indigenous human rights defenders…. Read More ›

• Indigenous Leaders in Guatemala Are Camping Out to Prevent Post-Election Coup

  By kevodell on January 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in Truthout on the dynamic mobilisations of Indigenous peoples in support of democracy in the face of corruption. The aroma of coffee wafts out from a communal kitchen tent at a Guatemala City protest encampment where people… Read More ›

• Arévalo’s Choice of Cabinet Clashes with His Base’s Expectations

  By kevodell on January 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Despite months of underhand, and blatantly corrupt, manoeuvres against the newly elected President, Bernardo Arévalo, and Vice-President, Karin Herrera, the inauguration took place in the capital yesterday. Even last minute attempts to hold things up were carried out by the… Read More ›

• GHRC – El Quetzal

  By kevodell on December 20, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• PBI Guatemala – Call for Volunteers Now Open

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International Guatemala is seeking dedicated individuals to volunteer on their field team!  Join PBI Guatemala and work alongside passionate human rights defenders at the forefront of land, access and labour rights struggles in local communities and across Guatemala…. Read More ›

• Can Guatemalans Save Their Democracy?

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Graciela Mochkofsky writes in The New Yorker on the current challenges facing Guatemala and democracy and posing that question. Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, who won a landslide victory in August, is scheduled to take office on January 14th, but nobody… Read More ›

• An Anti-Democratic Mafia Is Isolating Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

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