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• 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 ›

• PBI-Guatemala concern over the situation at the Police Archive

  By kevodell on January 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Brent Patterson writes: On January 12, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “The Supreme Court of Justice had scheduled a public hearing on the AHPN situation but rescheduled it for February 24. Meanwhile the Archive is left without staff.” The… Read More ›

• 'Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are everything but safe.'

  By kevodell on January 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Belén Fernández writes in Al Jazeera. This year, US President and xenophobe-in-chief, Donald Trump finagled “safe third country agreements” with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, allowing the United States to deport aspiring asylum seekers to the very region many of… Read More ›

• A Translation Crisis at the Border

  By kevodell on December 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Rachel Nolan writes in the New Yorker magazine about the grassroots group of interpreters who are often the only hope for migrants who speak Mayan languages. “The U.S. government claims to provide proper translation at all points in the immigration… Read More ›

• NISGUA – December Solidarity Update

  By kevodell on December 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  NISGUA recently shared their Solidarity Update for December. Maya Achi survivors present a formal complaint against Judge Claudette Domínguez On December 5, 36 Maya Achi survivors of sexual violence presented a formal complaint against Judge Claudette Domínguez for acts of… Read More ›

• Guatemala – CICIG’s Legacy

  By kevodell on December 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) have done a series of short reports looking at Trends of the Decade. Guatemala features in various themes, but I thought to concentrate on the Fight Against Corruption and CICIG’s legacy. Since 2007, Guatemala’s… Read More ›

• Safe Third Country?

  By kevodell on December 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In November, a 23-year-old Honduran man became the first asylum seeker to be sent from the US to Guatemala under the “Safe Third Country” deal. Since then, it appears that up to two dozen asylum seekers have been flown to Guatemala. Two… Read More ›

• 2019 – a year of violence

  By kevodell on December 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  UDEFEGUA has just reported on the number of personal attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala this year, up to the middle of December. From the infographic, above, it reports that this year was the fourth most violent year out… Read More ›

• The cold cases of Guatemala’s civil war were impossible to identify—until now

  By kevodell on December 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Decades after 45,000 people vanished in Guatemala, an anonymous skeleton finally gets a name. Nina Strochlic writes in the National Geographic For 14 years, a human skeleton known as 317-38-10 sat in a cardboard box stored in a metal shipping… Read More ›

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