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• Anniversary of the fire in the Hogar Seguro

  By kevodell on March 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  It is now just three years since the fire in the Virgin of the Assumption ‘Safe/Secure’ Home (Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción) in San José Pinula, some 25 km from Guatemala City. While their lives can never be returned,… Read More ›

• Guatemala: New Law Threatens NGOs's Work

  By kevodell on February 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Amnesty International have launched an urgent action in response to the threatened new law. ‘On 11 February the Guatemalan Congress enacted Decree 4-2020 (formerly known as Bill 5257). This initiative imposes undue restrictions, controls and sanctions on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)…. Read More ›

• PBI-Guatemala visits La Puya blockade at entrance to gold mine

  By kevodell on February 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This post from Brent Patterson on the PBI-Canada website. On February 13, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we visited the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya camp, composed of 12 communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del… Read More ›

• Revolving Door Raises Concern about Corporate influence over Escobal Mine Consultation

  By kevodell on February 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  “Just weeks into his administration, President Giammattei has already declared martial law in two municipalities opposed to resource extraction. He also promised to fast-track a highly controversial law to regulate the consultation process. While sure to be contested, many fear… Read More ›

• Giammattei Begins Term Alongside Allies of Jimmy Morales

  By kevodell on February 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  ‘How does a former director of prison facilities connected to a massacre end up as president of Guatemala? In the country’s recent history, discontent with the political class has created fertile soil for people claiming to be saviors to take… Read More ›

• Drought and hunger: why thousands of Guatemalans are fleeing north

  By kevodell on February 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The threat of famine and the battle for dwindling natural resources are increasingly being recognised as major factors in the exodus José García Escobar and Melisa Rabanales write in The Guardian as part of the Global Development series. Martina García… Read More ›

• Drugs, mining, monoculture threaten Guatemala’s mangrove ecosystems

  By kevodell on January 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  On Guatemala’s Caribbean coast, criminal activity is destroying mangroves and the livelihoods of families who depend on them. Yet Guatemala’s mangrove ecosystems are connected to those of Honduras, Belize and Mexico. What happens to one affects the others. Francelia Solano… Read More ›

• Guatemala, a New President while the Old Leaves With Further Repression and Impunity

  By kevodell on January 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Lisa Rankin, of Breaking the Silence, writes on their blog site about the change-over but lack of change. January 14 was the inauguration of the new Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei. He is known as a hard-line right-wing conservative with a… Read More ›

• Around the change-over of President

  By kevodell on January 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In the last couple of weeks, Guatemala has seen the swearing in of its new President, Alejandro Giammattei, and the unedifying site of Jimmy Morales scurrying off to the Central America Parliament (PARLACEN) so as to maintain his impunity from… Read More ›

• What the CICIG Taught Guatemala

  By kevodell on January 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj writes on the Americas Program website about the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG by its acronym in Spanish). It is a timely piece, as President Morales is about to step down from his role… Read More ›

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