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• Ixil Genocide Trial Against Benedicto Lucas García Nears End

  By kevodell on November 18, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Eleven years after the genocide trial of ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, that of General Benedicto Lucas García, a former chief of the General Staff, began this April. In over 85 hearings, witnesses, victims, and experts have testified about the scorched-earth… Read More ›

• Ixil Dignity

  By kevodell on October 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Víctor Peña presented this photo essay in Spanish in March 2019, in El Faro. It is now translated in the lead-up to the verdict in the trial of retired Guatemalan General Benedicto Lucas García on the charge of genocide against… Read More ›

• International organizations demand due process guarantees at key hearing for Jose Rubén Zamora’s release

  By kevodell on October 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) was a signatory, among many others, of a Joint Statement demanding due process at the review of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora’s detention. 19 international civil society organisations demand due process at the review… Read More ›

• The Forgotten Midwives of Chiquimula

  By kevodell on October 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Víctor Peña presents a photo-reportage, in El Faro, on the malnutrition crisis affecting Guatemala and, more particularly, the department of Chiquimula. Brenda and her three children walk through the mountains to the community kitchen. Chon climbs a hill carrying a… Read More ›

• Judicial Elections Enter Decisive Phase

  By kevodell on October 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  “The Commissions have not excluded from the process aspiring magistrates, judges, lawyers, prosecutors and magistrates who have participated in acts of corruption and who have been involved in the corruption of the judiciary.” The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) recently… Read More ›

• The Voices Of Those Who Live Among Mountains

  By kevodell on September 30, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Resistance Of The Communities Of Guatemala Against Dispossession “We are Ral Ch’och, that is to say: we were born, we live and we are on our lands. We cannot go anywhere else other than our own.” Pascual Miranda, Río Cristalino… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Women Fought for Democracy. Now They Have to Make It Work for Them.

  By kevodell on September 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Laura Carlsen writes in Z about the mobilisation of Indigenous people in defence of democracy, and the role of Indigenous women within that struggle. After the election of Bernardo Arévalo, the corrupt elites tried to turn back the clock and… Read More ›

• Arrests Shed Light on Abuse of Women in Guatemala’s Prisons

  By kevodell on September 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  “The problem that we have is a penitentiary system that’s out of control, in which many of the guards are involved” Lara Loaiza writes in InSightCrime on the situation of women within the Guatemala carceral system. Corruption and criminality are… Read More ›

• Ex-Guatemala police chief convicted by Swiss court of prisoner murders – ‘legacy of the dirty war in Guatemala’

  By kevodell on September 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

  SWI swissinfo.ch has run a couple of pieces relating to the trial and subsequent sentencing of former Guatemala police chief, Erwin Sperisen, to 14 years in prison after being found guilty by a Geneva court of aiding and abetting the… Read More ›

• “Arévalo’s every action faces prosecutors’ arbitrary scrutiny”

  By kevodell on September 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

  “Consuelo Porras uses fear, threats and harassment to pursue an anti-democratic agenda. No one is cornered here. If anything, I believe that the MP, with its own actions, demonstrates its desperation and cornering.” Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English… Read More ›

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