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• Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

  By kevodell on August 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Brian Munoz writes on the St. Louis Public Radio website, part of the NPR network, about the consequences of U.S. migration policies on a Guatemalan couple living in Overland, Missouri. This is a story of the human costs of the… Read More ›

• Ancient Maya knowledge helps Guatemalan farmers cut agrochemical use

  By kevodell on July 27, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Key Ideas Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides, rooted in traditional practices and sustainable ideas, to replace expensive synthetic alternatives. Using a mixture of locally available plants, and ideas about farming passed down by ancestors, they are creating natural… Read More ›

• Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

  By kevodell on July 27, 2026 • ( 0 )

  In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it. Mark Hillsdon writes in The Guardian as part… Read More ›

• Pacoj Buries Its Victims of the War in Guatemala

  By kevodell on July 8, 2026 • ( 0 )

  In a rural hamlet in Chimaltenango, the remains of dozens of victims of the Guatemalan armed conflict piled up in a dingy storage room for decades. Now, their families have begun a burial that the government had promised but never… Read More ›

• GHRC – El Quetzal (Summer 2026)

  By kevodell on July 8, 2026 • ( 0 )

  She set an example of love, courage, and service for all whose lives she touched. The Summer 2026 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. The recent renewal of key leadership within the justice… Read More ›

• PBI Guatemala – Applying to become a field volunteer

  By kevodell on July 8, 2026 • ( 0 )

  “It was a pivotal experience to work and live for 12 months alongside my team and learn directly from human rights defenders.” – Former PBI Guatemala volunteer PBI’s field volunteer programme is one of the most direct ways to support… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Defense Chief Thinks He Can Clean Up the Army — and Keep Trump Happy

  By kevodell on July 8, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Yuliana Ramazzini has an interesting interview in El Faro English with the Guatemalan Defense Minister, Henry Sáenz. He talks about the roll of the Guatemala defense forces today, rooting out corruption within state security forces, how he views the relationship… Read More ›

• A Seed That Blossoms Over Time: Letter of Gratitude to Supporters of Santa María Tzejá Education Program

  By kevodell on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  I wanted to share this post from Rights Action to celebrate their work and to give voice to the community of Santa María Tzejá. Rights Action supporters may recall that from 1995-2010 we helped fund an empowering education project in… Read More ›

• Opportunity to reverse criminalisation of lawyers in Guatemala following new Attorney General appointment

  By kevodell on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Shared by Amnesty UK, Lawyers for Lawyers has joined the statement of the International Mission of Jurists for Guatemala following the appointment of Gabriel García Luna as the new Attorney General of the Republic and Head of the Public Prosecutor’s… Read More ›

• After the Elections, the Debate Guatemala Keeps Putting Off

  By kevodell on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Juan Francisco Sandoval, the former head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI). writes in El Faro English about the need for Guatemala to discuss and tackle the systemic issues at the heart of the judicial system. There is… Read More ›

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