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• Guatemala’s sugar cane land rush anything but sweet for corn growers

  By kevodell on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “For the past decade, the corn farmers of this village in southern Guatemala managed to scratch out two harvests of maize a year from the 10 hectares (24.7 acres) of land they rent. But the crop they planted in May… Read More ›

• The Rios Montt Judgement in the Light of International Law: Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Susan Kemp

  By Patrick Daniels on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Written by Naomi Roht-Arriaza & Susan Kemp (riosmontt-trial.org): Although it is unclear whether the trial of Efrain Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez will be resumed, it is worth evaluating the only document that specifically examines the question of guilt… Read More ›

• Land Grabs, the Latest Form of Genocide in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Leonor Hurtado of the Institute for Food and Development Policy – Food First writes about the genocide being carried out in Guatemala with land and food as the means. “In today’s Guatemala, land and resource control is increasingly in the… Read More ›

• Confused about Genocide in Guatemala?

  By kevodell on June 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  After the conviction and subsequent (illegal?) overturning of the verdict against Ríos Montt on genocide and crimes against humanity, there is apparently a deal of debate as to whether genocide was actually committed in Guatemala during the Ríos Montt de… Read More ›

• Ríos Montt Trial

  By kevodell on June 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Pamela Yates (When the Mountains Tremble and Granito) has posted a great series of short films from the genocide trial of General Ríos Montt. The 19 episodes of Dictator in the Dock can be found here. The Washington Office on… Read More ›

• Increased attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Alert issued by Peace Brigades International (PBI) Guatemala, May 2013 The purpose of this “Alert” is to draw attention to, and share our concerns regarding the intensification and severity of attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala, the defamation and… Read More ›

• This land is Mayan

  By kevodell on June 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “Indigenous communities in Guatemala, pushed off the land so biofuels can be cultivated, are struggling to survive – and it’s our fault”. On the 15th March 2011, 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley were forcibly evicted from… Read More ›

• Rubén Herrera Released from Prison!

  By kevodell on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  NISGUA reports, here, that Rubén Herrera, unjustly imprisoned since March 15 for his resistance to the Cambalam hydro-electric project, has been released from custody and cleared of all charges in one of two legal processes against him. While this case… Read More ›

• Criminalization and Persecution of Political Prisoner, Rubén Herrera

  By Patrick Daniels on May 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Since Friday, March 15, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), Rubén Herrera, has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam… Read More ›

• Constitutional Court annuls sentence against Rios Montt and trial reverts back to April 19

  By Patrick Daniels on May 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Ten days after a trial court issued its historic verdict convicting Efrain Rios Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentencing him to prison for 80 years, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, on Monday 20th May in a 3-2 ruling, annulled… Read More ›

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