Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• “We are not trespassers: this is our land”: Agrarian Conflict & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Alta Verapaz

  By kevodell on December 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on December 5, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on December 3, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• What’s behind efforts to strip Guatemala’s president-elect of his immunity?

  By kevodell on November 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Critics fear President-elect Bernardo Arevalo could be blocked from taking office amid a probe into university protests. Jeff Abbott writes in Al Jazeera about the current attempts by the Guatemala state to block the anti-corruption president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, from taking… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Renewed Attacks Against Democracy

  By kevodell on November 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a joint statement in relation to the ongoing abuse of the law by the government to silence critics and anti-corruption activists. Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office, Congress, and… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor requests withdrawal of immunity from prosecution of Bernardo Arevalo and Karin Herrera

  By kevodell on November 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) filed six requests for impeachment, seeking the authorization of a criminal investigation against the elected presidential pair and deputies who spoke in favor of the San Carlos movement, which rejected the imposition of Walter Mazariegos… Read More ›

• LASA demands respect for academic freedom and the 2023 election results in Guatemala

  By kevodell on November 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has issued a condemnatory statement regarding the criminalisation and arrest of civil society leaders in Guatemala. The Pacto de Corruptos continues to use underhand ways to block the legal change over of power to… Read More ›

• Public Prosecutor’s Office Continues Criminalization of Popular Dissent, Election Winners

  By kevodell on November 19, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on October 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The pedagogy of communal politics in Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 21, 2023 • ( 0 )

  A recent Opinion piece in Ojalá seeks to place the current national strike/blockade (paro nacional) within the context of oppression, indigenous solidarity and ages-old communal links. A communal mobilization of national scope has brought everyday impunity and extractivism in Guatemala… Read More ›

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