Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• PBI – Becoming A ‘Brigadista’

  By kevodell on October 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Peace Brigades International (PBI) Guatemala Project is made up of volunteers, from many countries, who have gone through a long and detailed training which covers the situation in Guatemala as well as the work of international accompaniment that PBI… Read More ›

• Guatemala is Constructing a Religious Narco-State

  By kevodell on October 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott has written a piece in The Progressive, for the “Other Americans” series, reflecting on the rise of right-wing evangelical forces in the once-Catholic majority nation which is reshaping its culture—and politics. As Christian nationalism rises within the Republican… Read More ›

• The Jungle Patrol: Fighting Illegal Loggers on the Guatemala-Mexico Border

  By kevodell on October 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Alejandro Melgoza and Alex Papadovassilakis present an important and fascinating report, on InSight Crime, into how a shadowy timber mafia, with ties to Asia, is illegally extracting precious wood on the Guatemala-Mexico border. They document how illegal loggers have ravaged… Read More ›

• Special Reports: Guatemala’s Downward Spiral

  By kevodell on October 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC), and the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLf) have, together, presented three reports into the challenges being faced by human… Read More ›

• FAO Report: Guatemala included among 19 countries with acute food insecurity

  By kevodell on October 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Ana Lucía González writes, in La Hora, about Guatemala being added to the list of ‘Hunger Hotspots’ compiled by the FAO/WFP. The report ‘Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, October 2022 to January 2023 Outlook’ warns that… Read More ›

• Who Will Inherit Giammattei’s Power in Guatemala?

  By kevodell on October 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Nine months before the presidential election, the right wing that rules the country is fracturing into rivaling projects as progressive groups discuss the elusive idea of a united candidacy. Electoral authorities are indulging pre-campaigning by the ruling party and top… Read More ›

• “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 ›

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