Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• 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 ›

• Music and Film news

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Music | ‘Tiembla patriarcado, tiembla: Hip Hop, Rebeldía y, Equidad’ (Tremble, patriarchy, tremble: Hip hop, rebelliousness and equality) On March 8, a compiled work of 12 Latin American rappers was launched. “We are women, we are Hip Hop” began in… Read More ›

• ‘El Eco del Dolor de Mucha Gente (The Echo of Pain of the Many)’

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “For over 30 years, members of the Cuevas family have been campaigning for justice for our son and brother Carlos, disappeared in 1984, and our sister-in-law Rosario Godoy de Cuevas and their family, abducted and murdered at the hands of… Read More ›

• CAWN Newsletter – Spring 2015

  By kevodell on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) have just published their latest Newsletter and contains many interesting items and articles. They have included a first-hand account from a young female volunteer talking about her recent volunteer experience of volunteering in El… Read More ›

• Ayotzinapa – EuroCaravana 43 comes to London

  By kevodell on May 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  It is estimated that some 45,000 people were disappeared during the armed conflict in Guatemala. Family members of the disappeared are still waiting to find out what the State did to them – to find out the truth. The pain… Read More ›

• Popular Protests Challenge Corruption and the Political Establishment

  By kevodell on May 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  More good commentary regarding the demonstrations that have taken place in Guatemala over the corruption scandal that has led to the resignation of the Vice-president. Jeff Abbott reflects from the demonstrations that took place on the 16th of May (#RenunciaYaFase2)… Read More ›

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