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• Who Benefits if the Guatemalan Congress Passes a Blanket Amnesty?

  By kevodell on February 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

    As Jo-Marie Burt and Paolo Estrada point out in the International Justice Monitor website, the Guatemala Congress is looking to give a full-blown amnesty for genocide and crimes against humanity and to free all those already convicted. Here, they… Read More ›

• Killings Of Guatemala’s Indigenous Activists Raise Specter Of Human Rights Crisis

  By kevodell on January 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

    María Martin recently wrote on NPR   For three days last week, thousands of Guatemalans blocked roads and major highways to protest the Central American country’s slide toward a constitutional crisis. The protest organizers included groups that have long… Read More ›

• Bishop Gerardi was killed 20 years ago in Guatemala. The search for justice continues today.

  By kevodell on May 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  By Jackie McVicar (published in America Magazine) “Monsignor Gerardi was a person who didn’t only relate with people in the poorest regions, not only with those most excluded,” says Nery Rodenas, but who also “sought reconciliation, peace and to recognize… Read More ›

• How indigenous women who survived Guatemala’s conflict are fighting for justice

  By kevodell on April 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  By Juliette Doman, published in The Conversation. In February 2016, Guatemalan women survivors and the alliance of organisations supporting them successfully prosecuted two former members of the Guatemalan military for domestic and sexual slavery in the groundbreaking Sepur Zarco trial…. Read More ›

• Molina Theissen – ‘we have chosen to live’

  By kevodell on April 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  It has taken 37 years for the five ex-military leaders to face justice for the forced disappearance of the 14 year old Marco Antonio Molina Theissen and the rape and torture of his sister, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen. They are… Read More ›

• Efraín Ríos Montt is dead

  By kevodell on April 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Efraín Ríos Montt, former dictator and leader of the coup d’etat in 1982, died this past Easter Sunday. He was under house arrest as his case was being heard again regarding the genocide carried out against the Ixil people during… Read More ›

• ‘I Am Here Seeking Justice’

  By kevodell on December 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this year we posted a link to a video from Plaza Pública on the Sepur Zarco case and, of the seeking of justice. The video. with English subtitles, by Juliette Doman, is available here and, again, there is nothing… Read More ›

• In Guatemala, the rule of law strikes back

  By kevodell on September 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The following appeared as an Opinion Piece in the Washington Post yesterday. WHEN HE ran successfully for president of Guatemala two years ago, Jimmy Morales was a political novice, best known as a television comedian playing feeble-minded peasants. It turns… Read More ›

• Jimmy or Iván? How to understand the current crisis in Guatemala

  By kevodell on August 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Carolina Gamazo writes a helpful piece in FACTum to give some background to the current crisis in Guatemala. The underlying thing is that Morales wanted to put a stop to attempts to prosecute him for illicit financing. Within hours of… Read More ›

• The Dinosaurs are moving

  By kevodell on August 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday, 26th August 2017, through a recorded message and shared through social media, the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, announced his decision to to expel the head of CICIG (International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala), Iván Velásquez, from the country…. Read More ›

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