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• Death Threats in Guatemala: The Dangers of Justice-Seeking

  By kevodell on August 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “Guatemala is a land of tremendous contrasts; a place of incredible beauty, wonderful people and heart-stopping terror. Our final evening on a recent Skylight Pictures visit to this “land of eternal spring” starts simply enough, but by the end of… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Soldiers Sentenced to 6,060 Years in Prison for Role in 1982 Massacre – Democracy Now

  By kevodell on August 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

• Trial for Guatemala Massacre Concludes, but U.S. Military Aid Continues

  By Patrick Daniels on August 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Twenty eight years after the massacre of 251 indigenous farmers, I found myself silently accompanying human rights organizations scrambling to identify the remains. The request for a daily international presence from the organization of families of the disappeared in Guatemala… Read More ›

• Accused Sentenced to Over 6,000 Years for Dos Erres Massacre

  By kevodell on August 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  More than 28 years have passed since the massacre of more than 200 men, women, and children in the small farming community of Las Dos Erres, Petén. For 17 years, survivors and family members of victims have struggled to bring… Read More ›

• The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN)

  By kevodell on August 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) is a London-based organisation that supports, publicises and learns from the struggles of women in Central America in the defence of their rights. “Our work is grounded in strong and active links with the… Read More ›

• Alfonso Bauer Paiz (1918-2011)

  By kevodell on July 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

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• Guatemala: Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment

  By kevodell on July 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Women-only bus in Guatemala City. – Danilo Valladares/IPS ‘We are all safer here; it’s great because this way there are no men groping you,’ Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a… Read More ›

• In Guatemala, the oligarchs profit from the Maya civilisation

  By kevodell on July 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  So titled is an interesting article by Grégory Lassalle on Le Monde Diplomatique’s Spanish website. The article uses the exhibition of Maya artefacts currently showing at the museum of Quai Branly, in Paris, to highlight the fact that oligarch businesses… Read More ›

• Survivors give testimony of the massacres of 1982 and 1983

  By kevodell on June 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  "Two survivors are among the witnesses in the trial of Héctor Mario López Fuentes, former Army Chief of Staff of the Defense, in the period of 1982 to 1983. The Human Rights Prosecutor accuses the former head of the Army… Read More ›

• Oil Companies and the Subservience of the Government

  By kevodell on June 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  An interesting article by Emma Volonté found on Upside Down World suggests nefarious dealings of a resource extractive company in Guatemala. This should not necessarily be news as we have highlighted many times the workings of, for example, Goldcorp and… Read More ›

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