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• Human Rights Groups to Inter-American Court: Impunity is Alive and Well in Guatemala

  By kevodell on April 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  President Jimmy Morales invited the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to conduct its 57th session in Guatemala City, perhaps hoping to repair the country’s tattered relationship with the international organization. However, in extending this invitation, he may not have expected… Read More ›

• CREOMPAZ: The largest case of forced disappearance in Latin America

  By kevodell on March 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  With the news that an arrest warrant has been issued for Congressman Edgar Justino Ovalle, in connection with the CREOMPAZ case, it’s a good idea to recap the case in question, from a report by NISGUA. On January 6, 2016,… Read More ›

• CREOMPAZ Case: Fears that Congressman Ovalle has Fled

  By kevodell on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Attorney General, Thelma Aldana, issued an arrest warrant for Congressman Edgar Justino Ovalle, in connection with the CREOMPAZ case, writes Jo-Marie Burt in the International Justice Monitor website. It is suspected he has fled the country. Ovalle is… Read More ›

• Hell is not a Metaphor for this Place

  By kevodell on March 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  ‘Children killed by a disastrous state – we will not forget them’ “This is one of those columns that should never have to be written because the deaths of 40 children in a ‘safe’ Home, in the charge of the… Read More ›

• Indigenous communities bring Guatemala to a standstill as Guatemalan congress refuses to recognise indigenous justice

  By kevodell on February 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo by Anna Watts Indigenous communities across Guatemala came together to bring the country to a standstill, blockading major crossroads and highways. This nationwide peaceful demonstration was protesting against the Guatemalan congress’s rejection of a constitutional reform that would legally… Read More ›

• 500 YEARS

  By kevodell on February 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  “There is joy in dreaming about a new country, a country where we indigenous people, with our culture, our language, our spirituality, our worldview, can exist as part of this country.” – Daniel Pascual, Peasant Leader 500 YEARS is the story… Read More ›

• Will Ríos Montt ever stand trial for Dos Erres?

  By kevodell on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Jo-Marie Burt has been writing about the latest on whether José Efraín Ríos Montt will face trial in relation to the 1982 Dos Erres massacre, in which an elite unit of the Guatemalan army known as Kaibiles slaughtered over 200… Read More ›

• European Report Features Tahoe Resources as a ‘Harmful Investment’, Reveals Billion Dollar Funds Have Divested

  By kevodell on February 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Tahoe Resources is one of fourteen companies featured as a dangerous investment in the fifth edition of ‘Dirty Profits’ launched today in Hamburg, Germany and edited by the organization Facing Finance. The article posted on the Tahoe on Trial website… Read More ›

• Los Ancianos

  By kevodell on January 25, 2017 • ( 4 )

  Doña Sabina in her one-room village home. Without family who can support her, Sabina has very few possessions. At noon each day, she walks barefoot down sharp cobblestones to receive a meal at an elderly nutrition center run by Mayan… Read More ›

• Repression of communities defending their rights in the Micro Region of Ixquisis, San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango

  By kevodell on January 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Today, January 17, 2017, the communities of the Micro Region of Ixquisis, San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango, who defend human rights, their territory, life and natural resources, carried out a peaceful protest to express, once again, their rejection and disagreement with… Read More ›

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