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• Suitcases of Cash: Guatemala’s Faltering Anti-Corruption Efforts

  By kevodell on October 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in El Faro about the find, in a wealthy gated community, in Antigua, Guatemala, of about USD $15M in both Guatemala Quetzals and US Dollars. The search was carried out by FECI (Fiscalía Especializada Contra la Impunidad… Read More ›

• #ElijoDignidad – I Choose Dignity.

  By kevodell on October 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Pamela Yates, the film maker from Skylight, has featured a short film, Cho Ukayib’al (To Look Deeply), as part of her contribution to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 12th. The film is by Andrea Ixchíu Hernández and the Colectivo Elijo Dignidad… Read More ›

• ‘I am tired of it’: Femicides spark outrage across Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Women are protesting in Guatemala after recent murders fuel sorrow and calls for action. Sandra Cuffe has written in Al Jazeera about a weekend of action in Guatemala where the recent murder of a university student has sparked sorrow, outrage,… Read More ›

• Evicting Lote Ocho

  By kevodell on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  How a Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated the Guatemalan State Max Binks-Collier has written a powerful piece in The Intercept about the corporate and state violence visited on the poor community of Lote Ocho. It was often when Rosa Elbira Coc… Read More ›

• PBI Guatemala – latest Bulletin

  By kevodell on September 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International (PBI) – Guatemala Project published their latest Bulletin recently. It is a very useful resource to follow the work they do and the context within which they do so. Water Shortages in Guatemala Members of the organizations… Read More ›

• El Mirador and the threat of Indiana Jones

  By kevodell on September 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The rule of “finders, keepers” has held true for most archaeological discoveries at least since museums, as we now know them, have existed. Collectors of foreign objects have been around, of course, as long as war, but the officialization of… Read More ›

• New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ claims over a gold-mining project in Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  A new report exposes omissions and misrepresentations in a Nevada-based mining company’s more than $400 million suit against the Guatemalan government. Released today, Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala, examines… Read More ›

• Renewed ‘La Línea’ Investigations Further Implicate Guatemala Officials

  By kevodell on August 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Between May 2014 and April 2015, the criminal network known as “La Línea,” took in over 5.1 million quetzales ($666,000) in bribes, and the scheme cost the government at least 14.3 million quetzales ($1.85 million) in taxes. Alex Papadovassilakis writes… Read More ›

• The Case of “Lote Ocho”: Indigenous women hold corporations accountable for violence

  By kevodell on August 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Indigenous women in Guatemala are using the concept of extraterritorial obligations to hold corporations accountable for violence—and to set important precedents in human rights law. Andrea Bolaños Vargas and Andrea Suárez Trueba write an interesting and increasingly relevant article in… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s Murderous Leap Backward Is Enabled by Trump

  By kevodell on August 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Benoit Pierre Amedee María, known as ‘Benito,’ pictured during a graduation ceremony at the Ixil University. Photo: Giovanni Batz/provided for The Globe Post On August 10, a French development worker was shot to death execution-style in rural Guatemala, one of… Read More ›

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