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• Corruption scandal sparks nationwide protests

  By kevodell on May 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  By Richard Arghiris More than 40,000 protesters swept through the streets of Guatemala City yesterday, Saturday 16 May 2015, to vent fury over the nation’s unfolding corruption scandal, which is set to become the country’s most severe political crisis since… Read More ›

• ‘Tell us a story with your mobile phone’

  By kevodell on May 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  POY Latam (Pictures of the Year Latin America) was created in 2011 to celebrate the documentary and artistic photography of Latin America and has become the largest and most important competition in the region. Under the title, ‘Tell us a… Read More ›

• Vice-President resigns amid continued protests

  By kevodell on May 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Following on from the arrests in relation to the massive tax and customs fraud in Guatemala which seemed to ensnare the Vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, comes the news this week of her resignation (in the services of the people!). In announcing… Read More ›

• Dam protests met with repression in Ixil region of Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  This video footage compiled by Guatevision includes a selection of brief clips showing some of the protests and state response. On April 28th, a massive contingent of police was sent into the Ixil triangle in Guatemala to evict a road… Read More ›

• Otto Pérez, Sleepless Nights and the CICIG

  By kevodell on May 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  President Otto Pérez Molina extended the CICIG’s mandate in Guatemala against his will, as a desperate measure to alleviate a political crisis, and to hold off critics and accusations against him and Vice-president, Roxana Baldetti. Carlos Arrazola has written a… Read More ›

• Indigenous Campesinos in Guatemala Demand an End to Violent Evictions

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Early in the morning on April 17, the international day of the campesino’s struggle, nearly 450 indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayan families from the Guatemalan departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, and Izabal arrived in the historic centre of Guatemala and began… Read More ›

• Reporting on corruption proves deadly in Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Louisa Reynolds writes in Al Jazeera America of the recent murderous attacks on journalists in Guatemala which left three dead. At the beginning of March, Danilo López, a correspondent for Guatemala’s largest national newspaper, Prensa Libre, and Federico Salazar, a… Read More ›

• Rights under siege: the remilitarisation of Guatemala

  By kevodell on May 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “There were around 2,500 police and army in the region,” Francisco tells me. “With tanks and trucks and everything it seemed as if they were coming to war.” Since the construction of the Escobal silver mine in the neighbouring village… Read More ›

• Guatemalans join together to demand their leaders “resign”

  By kevodell on April 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  A remarkable, even for Guatemala, ten days culminated yesterday in thousands of people marching in Guatemala City calling for the President and Vice-president to resign among accusations of massive corruption. We reported in 2010 that “whilst CICIG – the International… Read More ›

• How a quasi-military project was created to protect the Escobal mine

  By kevodell on April 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “An affidavit given on November 24, 2014 by Donald Paul Gray, vice president of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources Inc., has shed light on the strong interests at play since 2011 in contracting private security companies for the Escobal… Read More ›

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