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• Yo sí puedo

  By kevodell on March 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  More than 65,000 Guatemalans have learned to read and write since 2007 with the help of the Cuban literacy programme ‘Yo sí puedo’ (Yes I Can), which has been used in at least 28 countries worldwide, including 13 in Latin… Read More ›

• Film Screening: ‘Granito: How to Nail a Dictator’

  By Patrick Daniels on March 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Frontline will be hosting the Pamela Yates’s new film on Guatemala: ‘Granito: How To Nail A Dictator’ on the April the 1st 7pm. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Pamela Yates afterwards.   Following her groundbreaking documentary… Read More ›

• Martial Law, Repression, and Remilitarization in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Simon Granovsky-Larsen has written about the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz in this article posted on the LAB website. It was originally posted on the NACLA site. It is another useful contribution to the discussion about the reasons for… Read More ›

• Central America Women’s Network – upcoming events

  By kevodell on March 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) have two events coming up worth your while if you can make them. 20th anniversary celebration! This year marks CAWN’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion CAWN will be hosting an evening of talks… Read More ›

• Speaking event on Post Conflict Human Rights in Guatemala

  By Patrick Daniels on February 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Dear readers, My name is Sam Pearse I am a former international accompanier with GSN, and have returned to the UK since my period of accompaniment.I will be starting a speaking tour on Post-Conflict Human Rights in Guatemala, focusing on… Read More ›

• Norma Cruz mentioned in parliamentary question

  By Patrick Daniels on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala has been mentioned twice this week in parliament: once in Foreign Affairs questions in relation to the Guatemala-Belize border situation, and in the Lords in relation to Norma Cruz. We have recorded several times the important work that Norma… Read More ›

• More on the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz

  By kevodell on February 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  More articles on the State of Siege in Alta Verapaz as well as a short film. The AFP film was made by Greg Brosnan who was also responsible for the Guatemalan immigrant film In the Shadow of the Raid, featured… Read More ›

• Human Rights Watch Film Festival

  By kevodell on February 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London on 23rd March until 1st April and features two films on Guatemala, both directed by Pamela Yates. When the Mountains Tremble was filmed in 1982. “In the early 1980s, death squads… Read More ›

• Another arrest made in Dos Erres case

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

  As we reported back in September, former kaibil Gilberto Jordan was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Florida for lying on his naturalisation papers. He hid his role in the Dos Erres massacre to obtain US citizenship. Recently, another former… Read More ›

• Peace Brigades International on Radio 4 Appeal

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

  Accompaniment got some perhaps unusual but welcome exposure this week as Peace Brigades International was chosen as the organisation to feature on the Radio 4 Appeal. It features the case of indigenous Mexican woman Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who was able… Read More ›

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