Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• 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 ›

• Arévalo’s Reform Bill to Sack Consuelo Porras Stalls in Gridlocked Congress

  By kevodell on July 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Roman Gressier wrote in El Faro English, in May, of the challenges facing the Bernardo Arévalo in seeking to remove Consuelo Porras as the Attorney General. Time was indeed of the essence on Monday, May 6, when Guatemalan President Bernardo… Read More ›

• Central America Faces Intense Wildfire Season

  By kevodell on April 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott writes in The Progressive Magazine about the current challenges facing Guatemala with regard to preventing and managing the many forest fires that have been registered during this period of El Niño and being exacerbated by climate change in… Read More ›

• Guatemala Reform Agenda Hinges on Crucial High Court Elections

  By kevodell on April 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Vaclav Mašek Sánchez writes in El Faro English about the challenges facing Bernardo Arévalo in seeking to deepen democracy in Guatemala, in a structural sense, through the election of magistrates in the country. Since the removal of the CICIG, many… Read More ›

• Guatemala Archdiocese a force behind genocide trial of retired general

  By kevodell on April 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• No End in Sight for His AG Problem, Arévalo Seeks Aid from US, OAS, Europe

  By kevodell on April 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Lacking a roadmap for the central political issue of AG Consuelo Porras’ refusal to resign, Bernardo Arévalo is doubling down on his bet for international support. Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz write in El Faro English on the challenges… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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