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• Expanding Her Enemy List, Guatemalan AG Accuses Indigenous Leaders of Terrorism

  By kevodell on May 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Two Maya K’iche’ pro-democracy leaders who were key in fending off an electoral coup in 2023 and 2024 have now been arrested and accused of terrorism, including a member of President Bernardo Arévalo’s cabinet. In response, Arévalo and Indigenous authorities… Read More ›

• UK sanctions corrupt actors in Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The UK has sanctioned seven corrupt actors whose actions have undermined democracy and the rule of law in Guatemala. The UK Government recently announced sanctions being placed on corrupt actors in Guatemala. Among the members of the “Pacto de Corruptos”… Read More ›

• Peace Brigades International remembers the life and activism of David Hartsough

  By kevodell on March 28, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International (PBI) – Canada have posted a nice piece about David Hartsough, who passed away recently. David was a human rights accompanier in Guatemala during the 1980s and was involved in the early accompaniment of GAM (Grupo de… Read More ›

• Ongoing Struggles for Justice: Criminalisation of Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Defenders in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 27, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Members of the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa stand in solidarity against the mining on their land An article was recently published on the website of Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) highlighting the criminalisation of Indigenous defenders in Olopa…. Read More ›

• Exile is ‘a little bit less than death’ for lawyer forced to flee Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Haroon Siddique wrote in The Guardian on Virginia Laparra’s struggle for justice and her receiving of the Sir Henry Brooke award. A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor forced into exile after being pursued by the country’s conservative elite has said that leaving… Read More ›

• The Genocide Trial and the Tightrope

  By kevodell on March 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  José Luis Sanz wrote a two-piece chronicle in El Faro, published in Spanish in 2014, on CICIG, Claudia Paz y Paz, the genocide trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, and exile. The chronicle has been translated by Max Granger amid the… Read More ›

• Mayans in Guatemala call on multinational companies to stay away

  By kevodell on March 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Una Kelly writes on the RTÉ website about the struggle of Indigenous Q’eqchi Maya in their opposition to multi-national resource extraction in eastern Guatemala. Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala have called for a halt on multinational companies coming to their communities… Read More ›

• Arévalo’s “Democratic Spring” Polls Below the Nicaraguan Dictatorship

  By kevodell on March 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  El Faro has presented a short video, scripted by Yuliana Ramazzini and Roman Gressier, on Bernardo Arévalo’s inability to curb criminalisation by the Attorney General and how his communications stumbles compound his inexperience as he struggles to make headway in… Read More ›

• Fighting Corruption – Virginia Laparra awarded the Sir Henry Brooke award

  By kevodell on February 24, 2025 • ( 0 )

  In a significant acknowledgment of her relentless fight against corruption under perilous conditions, Virginia Laparra Rivas, a former prosecutor in Guatemala, was honoured with the prestigious Sir Henry Brooke Award for 2025. The ceremony, organized by the Alliance for Lawyers… Read More ›

• Migrants Describe Journey As Military Deportation Flights Continue

  By kevodell on February 19, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott writes in the El Paso Times of the trauma of the military deportation flights as Guatemalan nationals are forcibly removed from the United States. It was a somber — and for some degrading — return to their politically… Read More ›

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