Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• “If the elections are clean, a progressive victory is possible in Guatemala”

  By kevodell on October 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  In an interview with José Luis Sanz, published in El Faro, the former Guatemalan Human Rights Attorney, Jordán Rodas Andrade, believes that the opposition can still win the 2023 elections in Guatemala. He believes that there is enough outrage among… Read More ›

• IACHR ratifies judgement to protect Judge Gálvez

  By kevodell on September 29, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Verdad y Justicia en Guatemala tweeted that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) had ratified their judgement regarding Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez in ordering the Guatemala state to provide protection and security for the Judge and his family. Errors… Read More ›

• Wounds Reopened: The Impacts of Democratic Backsliding on Human Rights in Guatemala

  By kevodell on September 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  GHRC/USA led an Emergency Human Rights Delegation to Guatemala to document the impacts of the democratic backsliding and destruction of rule of law on human rights defenders. The delegation met with, among others, defenders, lawyers, journalists, Indigenous land defenders, and… Read More ›

• A Guatemalan law meant to protect women from violence is being used against journalists

  By kevodell on September 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Leila Miller writes in the Los Angeles Times about a particular use of lawfare in obstructing journalists in their work uncovering corruption – the law to protect violence against women. It was a landmark piece of legislation for Guatemala: a… Read More ›

• Guatemala: environmental defenders of Lake Atitlán

  By kevodell on September 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The women of Tz’ununya’ Collective have struggled for eight years to defend and conserve Lake Atitlán by pushing for local authorities to stop the deterioration of the lake. Latin America Bureau has republished a piece by David Toro, as part… Read More ›

• ‘The Indigenous Women of Guatemala had the Courage to Break the Silence’

  By kevodell on September 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Josefina Salomón and Sergio Ortiz Borbolla spoke with Dr. Jo-Marie Burt, a Senior Fellow at WOLA, about the historic importance of two gender violence trials, that of the Maya Q’eqchi’ women of Sepur Zarco, and of the Maya Achi women… Read More ›

• “We are the seeds that the State tried to kill, but now we bloom in the morning light”

  By kevodell on September 19, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The latest Bulletin from PBI Guatemala features several articles as well as an update on their work. Stolen Chilhood – For some years now, walking through the streets of the historic center of Guatemala City, we are astonished by the… Read More ›

• Top corruption prosecutor held in jail as Guatemalan elite bids to purge foes

  By kevodell on September 19, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Jody García and Nina Lakhani wrote in The Guardian, recently, on the case of Virginia Laparra, a leading senior anti-corruption prosecutor in Guatemala and the use of what is termed ‘lawfare’ being waged against anti-corruption members of the judiciary by… Read More ›

• The Case against Journalist José Rubén Zamora Was Built in 72 Hours

  By kevodell on August 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Julie López writes in El Faro English about the case of José Rubén Zamora, the founder and head of El Periódico, one of Guatemala’s premier news outlets. The president and director of Guatemalan newspaper elPeriódico, José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, and… Read More ›

• Washington Post on the arrest of José Rubén Zamora of El Periódico

  By kevodell on August 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  An opinion piece in the Washington Post has attacked the decision of the Guatemala authorities to arrest the president and founder of the newspaper elPeriódico, José Rubén Zamora, for effectively speaking truth to power. “This is not a case against… Read More ›

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