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• Totonicapán: Tension in Guatemala’s Indigenous Hinterland

  By kevodell on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. It recently published a report into the killings at Totonicapán featured

• Guatemalan Genocide Trial

  By kevodell on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ended a four-hour hearing today in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt by accepting all of the witnesses, experts and documents submitted as evidence by the prosecution. The defense, by contrast, failed… Read More ›

• A chance at justice in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The news that Efraín Ríos Montt was to stand trial on charges of genocide was widely greeted. Kirsten Weld, in the New York Times, in recognising the bravery of the Guatemalan judge stated, “In greenlighting a public trial for the… Read More ›

• Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s ex-dictator, to stand trial on genocide

  By kevodell on January 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Great news in from Guatemala today – this from Associated Press. “A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of… Read More ›

• Facts about Guatemala’s Kaibiles

  By kevodell on January 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Adam Isacson notes on the ‘Just the Facts’ website, ““For the first time in more than 25 years, an American Soldier has graduated from the Guatemalan special operations Kaibil School, in Poptún, Guatemala,” announces a December news release from U.S…. Read More ›

• Guatemala: Impunity, or Justice for Crimes of the Past?

  By kevodell on January 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  In 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Guatemalan state in three cases: the 1982 Río Negro massacres, the 1984 forced disappearance of union and student activist Fernando García, and 28 disappearances between 1983-1985 documented in the military… Read More ›

• A Review of 2012

  By kevodell on December 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Genocide cases Four ex-generals had been bound to proceedings for genocide and crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, on the 15th January 2012, the judge provisionally suspended criminal prosecution against Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores because of his state of health and ordered… Read More ›

• Mayan Priests Denied Access to Ceremonial Places in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Following on from the previous blog

• Mayan Oxlajuj Baktun: End of an Era, More of the Same.

  By kevodell on December 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “It is shameful on the part of the Guatemalan government to make the international community believe it is promoting the Mayan culture, when it continues to develop an aggressive policy of appropriation of our natural resources. This manifests itself in… Read More ›

• World Bank must pay for Guatemala ‘terror loans’

  By kevodell on December 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Guatemala’s people lived through one of the most brutal periods of the twentieth century – a government-run terror campaign that turned the country into horror film. Recent research by Jubilee Debt Campaign has… Read More ›

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