Guatemala Solidarity Network

Recent Posts - page 30

• Guatemala: A Fragile Rule of Law

  By kevodell on November 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  María Reyes has written a blog post on the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence (BTS) Network website highlighting the levels of corruption currently inherent at all levels of the Guatemala state. October 13th marks two years without electing new magistrates for… Read More ›

• New obstruction to historical justice in Guatemala

  By kevodell on November 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Mike Phipps writes in Labour Hub about the challenges being faced in the search for justice in the Death Squad Diary (Diario Militar) case. The presiding judge has stated that the defendants have a case to answer but the Attorney… Read More ›

• Solidarity And Support For ACOGUATE And CUC

  By kevodell on October 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The above statement was released by the Convergence for Human Rights Coalition in response to the criminalisation of human rights organisations ACOGUATE and CUC. The current political and judicial environment is part of an increasingly repressive approach of the Guatemala… Read More ›

• GHRC – Human Rights Accompaniment Comes Under Attack

  By kevodell on October 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  GHRC published the above joint statement with Due Process of Law Foundation, Washington Office on Latin America, and Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Initiative in solidarity with the human rights accompaniment organization ACOGUATE. In recognition of the worsening human rights… Read More ›

• Demand That State Cease Excessive Violence

  By kevodell on October 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In response to the events at El Estor, the above statement was released jointly, yesterday, by Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS-RES), Human Rights Defenders Project, Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), Guatemalanetz Bern, Protection International… Read More ›

• Violence Against Q’eqchi’ Community In El Estor

  By kevodell on October 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The above statement was released by UDEFEGUA in response to the violence carried out by state forces against the Q’eqchi’ population in El Estor protesting against the open-pit Fénix nickel mine owned by Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel (CGN). My translation… Read More ›

• “We weren’t dreaming of a coffin… now our family is just trying to survive”

  By kevodell on October 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Daniela Rea wrote in Pie De Página about the murder of 19 year old Santa Cristina García Pérez and eighteen others, for which Mexican state police officers have been accused by the State Attorney General. There tends to be plenty… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s growing palm oil industry fuels Indigenous land fight

  By kevodell on October 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in Al Jazeera about the ongoing land struggles in Guatemala primarily focusing on palm oil production, its destructive legacies, and Indigenous resistance. Anibal Agurtia blows into the conch shell tied to a red string around his hand,… Read More ›

• Could Indigenous demonstrations against corruption lead to lasting change in Guatemala?

  By kevodell on October 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Eduardo Campos Lima wrote recently in America: The Jesuit Review about the increasingly active response to government and elite corruption especially as seen through Indigenous mobilisations. Interestingly, in presenting a ‘split’ in the opposition in, for example, town and country,… Read More ›

• We Reject The Transfer Of Prosecutor Hilda Pineda

  By kevodell on October 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In response to the transfer of Hilda Pineda from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to that of Tourist Crimes, the Genocide Never Again Coalition (Coordinación Genocidio Nunca Más) published a rejection (above) on the grounds of justice. Below the following translation,… Read More ›

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