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• ‘Our lives can be cut short at a stroke’

  By kevodell on March 17, 2010 • ( 0 )

  ‘This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke’. So titled an article by Danilo Valladares for Inter Press Service. As… Read More ›

• Guatemala has the justice it pays for.

  By kevodell on March 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Recently, Barbara Schieber in The Guatemala Times, published a piece which again highlighted the contradictions in Guatemala around state responsibility and state ability to tackle the endemic violence affecting that country. The Association of Bi-national Chambers of Commerce (ASCABI) has… Read More ›

• Another leader of FRENA has been murdered

  By Patrick Daniels on February 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Yet another director of the organisation FRENA (the Front for Resistance in Defence of Natural Resources and the Rights of the People) was murdered in San Marcos this week. According to a communiqué by the group URNG-MAIZ, Octavio Roblero was… Read More ›

• “Mining and Human Rights: Beyond The Challenge”

  By kevodell on February 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

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• And now for something completely different…

  By Patrick Daniels on February 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The BBC is currently running a series of short programmes entitled ” A History of the World in 100 Objects”, which charts human development through artefacts to be found in the British Museum. The development of agriculture is unquestionably a… Read More ›

• Supreme Court reactivates Dos Erres case – action at last

  By Patrick Daniels on February 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  As we reported on 7 January the state of Guatemala was found to have so obstructed the progress of the case against those accused of the Dos Erres massacre that it constituted a denial of the right to justice. Following… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía

  By kevodell on February 7, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We have received word from Jean-Marie Simon that her book Guatemala: Eternal Spring – Eternal Tyranny will be republished in Guatemala this year. Originally published in 1988 by WW Norton, the new version will be in Spanish – Guatemala: Eterna… Read More ›

• El Paraíso de los Canallas

  By kevodell on February 7, 2010 • ( 0 )

  ‘Guatemala means ‘Place of many trees’, but amongst the foliage are hidden the murderers, rapists and criminals. This country, known for the gentleness of its inhabitants, is home to hyenas. You count fifteen murders daily and the rapes multiply.’  … Read More ›

• The Attack on the Spanish Embassy

  By kevodell on January 30, 2010 • ( 1 )

  The 31st January 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the Guatemalan state attack on the Spanish Embassy and the massacre of 37 people. As well as a memorial, this highlights the barbarity of the regimes in this era.   The… Read More ›

• Atitlán – the cry of a lake

  By kevodell on January 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The writer, Aldous Huxley, famously wrote wrote of Lake Atitlán,“Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a… Read More ›

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