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• In court news…

  By Patrick Daniels on July 3, 2008 • ( 0 )

  The defence lawyers of Rios Montt showed that they are well practised in the Guatemalan art of the dilatory amparo, or injunction. Earlier this year they filed an injunction against an order that insisted that military plans be provided to… Read More ›

• Letter to BBC Mundo

  By kevodell on July 2, 2008 • ( 0 )

  There was an interesting article on BBC Mundo the other day, about a compensation programme set up by the Guatemalan government. While this was of interest in its own right, a paragraph near the end of the article stopped me… Read More ›

• Army Day or Remembrance Day?

  By Patrick Daniels on June 27, 2008 • ( 0 )

  The last day of June every year for the past 137 years has been marked as Army Day in Guatemala. For the previous 136 years this has also been the occasion for a military parade throughout the capital city. However,… Read More ›

• Project: Chocolá Archaeology

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We were recently contacted with information about this interesting archaeological project: "The project’s research focuses on a major, hitherto overlooked, and very long-lived ancient Maya city located in the heart of the seminal Southern Maya Zone (SMZ). At an elevation… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Biologist wins a Whitley Award for Nature Conservation

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  I recently visited Wakehurst Place, a beautiful garden in West Sussex, but also home to the Millennium Seed Bank. The seed bank is aiming to collect and store seed of ten percent of the world’s flowering plants by 2010. In… Read More ›

• Plan Merida – can it make a difference to violence and drug trafficking?

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  John Negroponte, who was notoriously the US ambassador to Honduras during the contra war, but now is Subsecretary of the United States, has been visiting Central America recently. On 3 to 6 June he visited Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador… Read More ›

• PBS Documentary on National Police Archives

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We have reported before about the discovery and analysis of the National Police archive. Whilst there never was going to be the smoking gun of the direct, explicit and written order to disappear someone, nevertheless a careful study of the… Read More ›

• Guatemala: Five Sentenced to 780 Years for Río Negro Massacre

  By kevodell on June 12, 2008 • ( 0 )

  "After three years of bureaucratic suspension and six months of hearings, five ex-civil patrollers were sentenced to 780 years in prison by the Sentencing Tribunal in the highland county of Salamá on May 28." "The massacre of Río Negro women… Read More ›

• The Silent Violence of Peace in Guatemala

  By kevodell on June 1, 2008 • ( 0 )

  ‘Citizens in Guatemala have understood for years that the state continues to be a prime source of human rights abuses, and many Guatemalans are actively trying change change this, despite threats to their personal safety and few signs of amelioration…. Read More ›

• Niña de Guatemala: The Engima of José Martí

  By Patrick Daniels on May 5, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Jose Marti has to be one of those cultural enigmas you come up against as an outsider in Guatemala. When you read or hear the poem ‘La niña de Guatemala’, perhaps like the hundreds of Guatemalan school kids who learn… Read More ›

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