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• Guatemala’s White Flags: COVID Community Response

  By kevodell on May 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  They say that viruses don’t discriminate, but as COVID-19 sweeps across the world it has become ever more clear that this is not the case. Populations who have faced historical discrimination and marginalisation are far more vulnerable to both the… Read More ›

• Three years after the fire that killed 41 girls in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  By Frauke Decoodt – this English translation courtesy of Confidencial. “I don’t want anyone to wish me a Happy Women’s Day on March 8th,” recently said Brendy Cuy Urizar. Elsa Siquín Montafúr doesn’t celebrate this day either. Brendy is the… Read More ›

• Pamela Guinea: Cinema made in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  It is very difficult to explain what is happening in Guatemalan cinema. How can a small country, without a cinema law and with so many conflicts, make such good cinema? Pamela Guinea is a Guatemalan film producer, and has worked… Read More ›

• NISGUA – February Solidarity Update

  By kevodell on March 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Highlights from NISGUA’s February 2020 Solidarity Update include: 21st Celebration of the Day of Dignification for Victims February 25th marked the 21st anniversary of the presentation of the UN-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission Report for Truth and Reconciliation. The report, Guatemala:… Read More ›

• In Resistance, there is Revival: Delegation Reflection

  By kevodell on March 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  From February 22-29th, a Canadian delegation visited communities and organizations resisting the Escobal mine in Guatemala. The delegation was organized by BTS and Mining Watch. Charlotte Connolly writes about the experience. The week-long delegation to the Escobal Mine, facilitated by… Read More ›

• Guatemala: violence against women

  By kevodell on March 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  On International Women’s Day gender equity is still a long way off. Nathalie Mercier, of Christian Aid, writes in LAB – Latin America Bureau. The 8th March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in Guatemala for the past three… Read More ›

• ‘Helen’ – a story of persistence and justice

  By kevodell on March 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  ‘Helen’, by Agencia Ocote, is the audiovisual profile of one of the most important women in the fight for human rights in Guatemala and Central America: Helen Mack. This documentary, by Julio Serrano Echeverría and Alejandra Gutiérrez Valdizán, builds a… Read More ›

• Commemoration of the Xococ Massacre

  By kevodell on March 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Laura Robinson, from Breaking the Silence (BTS), accompanied the Rabinal Legal Clinic and The New Hope Foundation School to what had been used as a clandestine cemetery in Xococ, a town outside of Rabinal. It was the 38th anniversary of… Read More ›

• Canada: The Other Imperial Power in Latin America

  By kevodell on March 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  “In 2020, more than a decade after assailants hacked her husband with a machete and shot him in the head, Angelica Choc is still fighting for justice. A teacher and respected leader in their Maya Q’eqchi community in eastern Guatemala,… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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