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• It Was Heaven That They Burned

  By kevodell on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I came across this essay by Greg Grandin in The Nation which, apparently, was commissioned as a preface to a new edition of ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú‘. However, the essay was excluded. It is still interesting reading for those who have… Read More ›

• Angelica Choc announces lawsuit brought in Canadian courts against HudBay Minerals Inc.

  By Patrick Daniels on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  As appears in: http://www.chocversushudbay.com/   On September 27, 2009, Adolfo Ich Chamán, a respected indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ community leader and an outspoken critic of harms and rights violations caused by Canadian mining activities in his community, was hacked and shot… Read More ›

• In Defence of CICIG

  By Patrick Daniels on November 17, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Whilst CICIG-the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala- is no stranger to criticism, it has come under attack in recent weeks, the intensity of which seems to be aimed at delegitimising the very basis of the organisation. During this time… Read More ›

• Amnesty International Urgent Action on Trades Unionist

  By Patrick Daniels on November 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Amnesty International have just issued the following urgent action on behalf of Mateo Lopez, a trades unions from the Health Trade Union. He has been very active in denouncing corruption in the health service and has also been involved in… Read More ›

• The Disappearance of Edgar Fernando García

  By Patrick Daniels on November 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  At the end of October another crack was opened in the wall of impunity: there was a further conviction for forced disappearance. That is the third success for justice, along with the El Jute and Choatalum  cases. The bare facts… Read More ›

• Exhumations at La Verbena: The Time has Come, with this Evidence, to seek Justice

  By kevodell on October 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  “Members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) have now been working for seven months on the landmark exhumations at La Verbena Cemetery. Without a doubt, this is the most complex and ambitious project in search of the 45,000 detained-disappeared,… Read More ›

• Guatemala forfeits spending on health infrastructure

  By kevodell on October 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  “The decision to lower royalties from six percent to one percent meant that Guatemala forfeited more than US$28m in three years. In 2006, the fiscal cost of this tax incentive to one mining company exceeded Guatemala’s total spending on health… Read More ›

• Wrenching Testimony and a Historic Sentence: US Court Convicts Dos Erres Perpetrator for Lying about Role in Massacre.

  By kevodell on September 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We were recently notified of this Kate Doyle article on the National Security Archive site. History was made yesterday (September 17, 2010) when a U.S. District Court Judge in Southern Florida, William J. Zloch, sentenced former Guatemalan special forces soldier… Read More ›

• Film event on the life of Monseñor Gerardi

  By Patrick Daniels on September 17, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We have just received notification of this free event next Tuesday at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Centre: Amnesty International and the Guatemalan Archdiocese’s Office of Human Rights (ODHAG) invite you to see this 90-minute English subtitled film which narrates the… Read More ›

• La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia

  By kevodell on August 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  A good friend went to see the premier showing in Guatemala City, back in April, of the film by Uli Stelzner that the blog featured previously, La Isla – Archivos de una tragedia (‘archives of a tragedy’). She sent me… Read More ›

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