Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• Podcast: Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis

  By kevodell on November 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala’s former minister of governance resigns and leaves the country after the public learns of the escape from prison of twenty Barrio 18 (18th Street) gang members. Gabriel Labrador and Roman Gressier presented a podcast on El Faro English highlighting… Read More ›

• Coup Attempt Thwarted in Guatemala

  By kevodell on November 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) posted recently about how democracy has again been threatened in Guatemala. A judge, at the request of the Public Ministry, declared that President Bernardo Arévalo’s political party, Semilla, was not legally constituted, declared the… Read More ›

• Rethinking Justice: How Prosecutors Can Disrupt Criminal Networks

  By kevodell on November 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The Due Process Of Law Foundation has posted a new piece on criminal networks and how prosecutors can disrupt them, using Guatemala as the case study. The research, by Issa Luna Pla, José Roberto Nicolás Carlock, and Harald Waxenecker, as… Read More ›

• GHRC – Attacks on human rights defenders continue in Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 10, 2025 • ( 0 )

  GHRC writes that in the past month attacks on human rights defenders, including journalists, have continued. Journalist Carlos Choc has suffered acts of intimidation and has been the victim of a defamation campaign. These acts are believed to be linked… Read More ›

• GHRC – Recent Developments in Justice and Human Rights

  By kevodell on October 10, 2025 • ( 0 )

  A recent update from Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) on justice and human rights contained information on the following: At UN President Arévalo Points to Progress & Admits ChallengesAt a recent speech before the UN General Assembly, President Bernardo Arévalo… Read More ›

• Pregnant and trapped: Guatemala’s child sex abuse crisis

  By kevodell on October 10, 2025 • ( 0 )

  In late 2022, Anja Popp presented an episode of Unreported World which looked at teen pregnancies among Indigenous Maya as a result of rape and sexual assault. There is a silent crisis of abuse and child pregnancies robbing a generation… Read More ›

• This is how survivors and victims’ families experienced the “bittersweet” ruling in the Hogar Seguro case

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  María José Longo Bautista has written on the website of Agencia Ocote a piece on the reaction of friends and relatives, of the victims, to the verdicts handed down in the Hogar Seguro case. The Agencia Ocote website hosts a… Read More ›

• Six former officials convicted in Guatemala for the deaths of 41 minors in a fire

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The teenagers were being held in a state-run home in 2017. The court orders an investigation into former president Jimmy Morales. Sofía Menchú writes in El País América on the outcome of the trial against state functionaries with regard to… Read More ›

• New York Times: The 36 Maya Achí Women who fought back

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The New York Times recently presented an interactive photo-essay on the 36 Maya Achí women and their struggle to access justice for the human rights violations the women suffered during Guatemala’s Internal Armed Conflict. . The piece containing photographs and… Read More ›

• The Fight for Human Rights Continues in Guatemala

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  A recent update from Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) highlighted the continuing struggle for human rights in the country. The update contained information on the following: Indigenous Rights Two Indigenous Environmental Defenders Assassinated in One Week Achí Women Receive Justice… Read More ›

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