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• CAFTA’s Decade of Empty Promises Failed Guatemala and Haunts the TPP

  By kevodell on August 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  In the UK and the European Union, social justice campaigners are fighting the secret trade deal being negotiated between the EU and the US – this deal is known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It is a… Read More ›

• Pessimism high in run-up to Guatemala elections

  By kevodell on August 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “After government corruption has dominated the political scene for months, voters are pessimistic about Guatemala’s political future.” This article appeared in the Telesur English site last week and highlights the increasing levels of pessimism among Guatemalans in the run up… Read More ›

• Latin American women are changing hip-hop

  By kevodell on August 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  ‘La Cumbia de la Memoria’ (video oficial) Guatemalan hip-hop artiste Rebeca Lane is featured in the UK Guardian in an article on how Latin American women are changing the face of hip-hop. Challenging the machista culture of hip-hop, her 2012… Read More ›

• Lynchings and the Politics of Inequality

  By kevodell on August 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  On May 20th, 2015, a sixteen-year-old girl was captured, beaten and, while bystanders watched passively, burned alive. She died. The brutality of the crime assured that, even from a remote corner of the world, international news outlets would run the… Read More ›

• Rising attacks against journalists in Guatemala cause concern for press advocates

  By kevodell on August 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  In the first six months of 2015 alone, there were 59 documented attacks against journalists in Guatemala, according to a report released last week by the Observatory for Journalists of the Center for Informative Reports about Guatemala (CERIGUA for its… Read More ›

• Victory for La Puya

  By kevodell on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The ‘Comunidad en Resistencia‘ of La Puya achieved a notable victory in a Guatemalan appeals court when it ruled in favor of the right of the residents to be consulted about those projects that affect them and ordered the suspension… Read More ›

• Palm Oil Industry Tied to Ecocide in Guatemalan River

  By kevodell on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott talks about ‘ecocide’ in the Peten, due to palm oil plantations. The Pasión River in northern Guatemala is a disaster area. Beginning on June 6, residents along the river in the municipality of Sayaxché, Peten, began to find… Read More ›

• Corruption and impunity – Guatemalans are angry

  By kevodell on June 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “A massive tax fraud scheme exposed in Guatemala this April might once have been viewed as business as usual in a country that has struggled with corruption at the highest levels for decades. Instead, Guatemalans got angry.” Events in Guatemala… Read More ›

• Forensic science in search of the ‘disappeared’

  By kevodell on June 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “During Guatemala’s internal armed conflict (1960-1996) almost 200,000 people are thought to have been killed or ‘disappeared’ at the hands of repressive and violent regimes. Those lives matter. Their families’ demands are clear: they want to know what happened to… Read More ›

• Top genocide lawyer assassinated in Guatemala City

  By Richard Arghiris on June 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The chief lawyer of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was gunned down in broad daylight last Wednesday 3 June. Francisco Palomo Tejada, 63, was driving home on a lunch break when two men on a red motorcycle pulled alongside his… Read More ›

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