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• When the Mountains Tremble: 40th Anniversary

  By kevodell on September 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The film-maker, Pamela Yates, of Skylight writes on the 40th anniversary of her hugely important film, When the Mountains Tremble, and its relevance for today. Although it’s been four decades since Mountains launched at the first Sundance Film Festival and… Read More ›

• Guatemala Electoral Tribunal Certifies Arévalo Victory but Suspends His Party

  By kevodell on August 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  On Monday the Supreme Electoral Tribunal both certified the victory of President-Elect Bernardo Arévalo and temporarily suspended his Semilla party, the latest in a chain of protracted legal battles leading up to inauguration on January 14. The party says it… Read More ›

• Guatemalans Celebrate Return of “Democratic Spring” as Potential Violence Threatens Transition

  By kevodell on August 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s runoff in a landslide but faces a troubled transition amid reported assassination plots and ongoing judicial maneuvers. Emily Taylor writes in NACLA on the ‘second Guatemalan spring’ and the challenges ahead. Guatemalans flocked to public squares… Read More ›

• Guatemalans Voted to End 69 Years of Corrupt Rule. Will US, Canada Accept It?

  By kevodell on August 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  To understand Guatemala’s challenges going forward, we must ask questions about the role of the international community. Grahame Russell writes in Truthout about the challenges facing Guatemala after the victory of Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera in the presidential election…. Read More ›

• Lawfare Casts Shadow Over Paradigm-Shifting Guatemalan Election

  By kevodell on August 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Despite court intervention and legal persecution, a reformist candidate is favored to win the runoff over an establishment option. Judicial efforts to derail democracy still loom. Vaclav Masek writes in NACLA about the increased use of lawfare by the state… Read More ›

• Bernardo Arévalo Victory Is a Turning Point for Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 24, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The president-elect has promised to crack down on corruption and break up monopolies, a welcome sign in a country gripped by a wealthy elite. Jeff Abbott writes in The Progressive Magazine on the results of the election and the challenges… Read More ›

• ‘Hope won’ Guatemalan presidential vote, but hurdles remain

  By kevodell on August 24, 2023 • ( 1 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in The Christian Science Monitor on the joyful reaction to the result of the presidential election while recognising the challenges ahead, especially regarding the expected political and judicial backlash from those elites who feel their power and… Read More ›

• ‘Fighting a huge monster’: mine battle in Guatemala became a playbook for polluters

  By kevodell on August 24, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Indigenous defenders opposing the Marlin mine were criminalised by a corporation and its state allies Nina Lakhani writes in The Guardian about the community struggle against the Canadian gold-mining firm Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, in the west… Read More ›

• Reaction: Arévalo Wins Presidency in Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The battle for democracy is far from over. It is not even a given that the peaceful transfer of power will take place. The weeks ahead will be critical. Claudia Méndez, Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, and Marielos Chang each contribute… Read More ›

• Landslide Victory for Arévalo Rattles Political Mafias in Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Roman Gressier, Gabriel Labrador and José Luis Sanz write in El Faro English about Bernardo Arŕevalo’s landslide win and the challenges looming for both his party, Movimiento Semilla, and democracy in Guatemala in the face of challenges and attacks coming… Read More ›

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