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• 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 ›

• 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 ›

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