Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• The Lives of Those Who Died

  By kevodell on November 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Sergio Palencia Frener writes in NACLA about those who were killed during the Alaska (La Cumbre de Alaska) massacre in 2012. In the Mayan highlands of Guatemala there is a summit called Alaska. Known locally as Chuipatán, it is located… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s past unearthed: The search for the disappeared

  By kevodell on November 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Witness series on Al Jazeera features a film by Paula Monaco Felipe. A 40-year search for his disappeared father leads an Indigenous weaver into a world of forensic investigation. Carlos Poyon was just three years old when his father… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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