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• 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 ›

• A question of disappearance

  By Patrick Daniels on July 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  It is rare that Guatemala gets any attention in the chambers of Westminster, so I was pleased to see that a parliamentary question has been asked about it recently. During the fourteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council a… Read More ›

• An inside look into the exhumations of Guatemala: Panzos

  By Patrick Daniels on July 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The years between 1978 and 1982 were the most brutal of the Guatemalan civil war culminating in ethnic cleansing campaigns now labeled as Genocide by the UN truth commission (CEH).  With varying styles, the Romeo Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt… Read More ›

• LAB highlights new reports

  By kevodell on June 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We welcome back the Latin America Bureau (LAB) from their short absence and they have a website which is well worth a visit for all things Latin America. Two reports on Guatemala were highlighted recently on their website by Javier… Read More ›

• CICIG – a model for others to follow

  By Patrick Daniels on June 26, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The lamentable resignation of Carlos Castresana, head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, better known by its initials as CICIG, has focussed attention on this important body. We should not forget how unique it is, as you can… Read More ›

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