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• Chixoy Dam – thirty year wait

  By kevodell on June 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  On May 14th, 1982, Carmen Sanchez Chen left her three-year-old son Manuel with a neighbour as she went to bathe in the Chixoy River, never to see him alive again. Thirty years later she buried him. James Rodríguez (MiMundo) has… Read More ›

• La Puya Peaceful Resistance – Multi-media slideshow

  By kevodell on June 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  James Rodríguez (MiMundo) put together a wonderful multi-media slideshow for the Guatemala: No Going Back! Conference held in London yesterday. It was done for Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP) and we are grateful to be able to show it… Read More ›

• State violence used against non-violent resistance at La Puya

  By kevodell on May 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  News has come from Guatemala that the Comunidad en Resistencia in La Puya was violently evicted over the weekend in order to make way for mining machinery to enter the mine site. The mine is owned by the US firm… Read More ›

• Congress denies Genocide

  By kevodell on May 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  An interesting development has recently taken place in Guatemala where members of Congress were asked to vote on whether or not genocide occurred there. The result was 87 out of 111 who voted that genocide did not occur. I don’t… Read More ›

• Jean-Marie Simon: A foreign witness to Guatemala’s war

  By kevodell on May 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  This is a short film from Amnesty International featuring Jean-Marie Simon, who is due in London for the Guatemala: No Going Back! conference on 31st May 2014. Jean-Marie’s unforgettable photographs of Guatemala, featured in this piece, were presented in her… Read More ›

• The Scale and Dagger Club

  By kevodell on May 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Carolina Gamazo wrote in Plaza Pública about the so-called Foundation Against Terrorism (Fundación contra el Terrorismo) and about how this group contributed to growing tensions in Guatemala during the genocide trial of Efraín Ríos Montt. The organisation is headed by… Read More ›

• Guatemala’s growing mining sector brings violence against indigenous communities with it

  By kevodell on May 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala’s metal mining sector has grown seven-fold since 2006, and the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina has granted more than 100 mining licenses during its first 18 months in power. There are also more than 50 hydroelectric projects at… Read More ›

• Guatemala – No Going Back! – Conference 31st May 2014

  By Patrick Daniels on April 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Saturday 31st May 2014 (9am- 4pm plus networking social 4pm- 6:30pm) Book your place now Lively discussion, debate, workshops, inspiration and action on the new challenges facing Guatemala’s social movement. 2013 was a historically momentous year for Guatemala. A genocide… Read More ›

• Guatemala: The War of Paz y Paz

  By kevodell on April 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Courtesy of InSight Crime, and written by Steven Dudley, is this fascinating piece about Claudia Paz y Paz and her struggle for justice in Guatemala, which led her up against the powerful and corrupt. Her term as Attorney General has… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Suppressing Dissent at Home and Abroad

  By kevodell on April 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Last year Otto Pérez Molina presided over the sharpest escalation in targeted attacks on human rights defenders since Guatemala’s armed conflict ended in 1996. Attacks on human rights defenders increased last year by 126 percent, by far the greatest jump… Read More ›

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