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• Guatemala: Controversial Early Start to Election Campaign

  By kevodell on January 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  “Guatemala’s election campaign got off to a controversial and premature start, with an evangelical pastor, a military officer, a former president, the president’s wife and the daughter of a general who led a coup emerging as presidential hopefuls, although three… Read More ›

• End the violence and impunity in Guatemala – Banana Link appeal

  By kevodell on December 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Regular readers will be aware of the precarious existence of community leaders in Guatemala. This also applies to trade union leaders. Our friends in Banana Link have recently posted an appeal on their website to end the violence and impunity… Read More ›

• UK Minister’s visit to Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  There were some mentions of Guatemala in Parliament recently in written form, in reply to questions from Katy Clark, the Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran. The Minister of State with responsibilities for Latin America, Jeremy Brown, visited Guatemala… Read More ›

• Los Preciosos

  By kevodell on December 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I came across this beautiful story of adoption from rural East Cork, in Ireland. Two children from Guatemala, Jacobo aged 4 and Natalie aged 5. Their father, Vittorio, is Italian. Their mother, Jools, is English. A family from three countries… Read More ›

• Attacks on justice and the rule of law in Honduras

  By kevodell on December 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Neighbouring Guatemala, Honduras suffered a coup last year which has been little reported, especially here in the UK. The coup, its implicit support from the United States, and its consequences for the rule of law and justice, are pointers in… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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