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• Unease over Guatemalan goldrush – BBC radio

  By kevodell on August 21, 2008 • ( 0 )

  With gold prices skyrocketing, the Mayans of Guatemala find themselves caught up in a new rush for the precious metal. ‘Crossing Continents’, on BBC radio, features mining in Sipakapa and the consequences of the large increase in the price of… Read More ›

• Execution of young people

  By kevodell on August 14, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We received very sad news from La Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes de Guatemala (ACJ), part of the International YMCA movement. The news concerned the assassination of three young men in the Amatitlán area. The communiqué from ACJ is introduced by… Read More ›

• Freedom of Information limps forward

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

  I have reported here before on the proposed Freedom of Information act which has been brought back into congress in Guatemala. After the Vice President called for it to be passed as soon as possible, positive noises are being made… Read More ›

• Centre for Gender and Refugee Studies Annual Report

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

  The Centre for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) has just published its annual report. The CGRS’ mission is to protect the human rights of refugee women, part of which addresses the root causes of the refugee flow in the first… Read More ›

• Addressing the Crimes of the Past

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

  The recent arrest and appearance of Radovan Karadzic in front of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has focussed attention again on a bitter, and recent, historical period in Europe. There have been plenty of articles in… Read More ›

• Brother of Helen and Myrna Mack attacked

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

  The brother of Helen and Myrna Mack, Ronald, was injured by bullets shot at him as he was driving through an intersection in Guatemala City on 29 July. It is not entirely clear what the motive for the attack was… Read More ›

• Never Again a Military Parade

  By kevodell on July 17, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Since 1871, the Guatemalan people have been submitted to witness the armed forces caravan through their streets every June 30th – officially observed as Armed Forces Day. Nevertheless, starting in 1999, the HIJOS Collective (acronym for: Sons and Daughters for… Read More ›

• In other news…

  By Patrick Daniels on July 4, 2008 • ( 0 )

  This blog is contributed to by people who have other lives, and inevitably sometimes the demands mean we miss posting a few things we would have liked to. This happened in May, so I thought I would just post up… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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