PBI Canada recently posted a couple of pieces from PBI Guatemala highlighting the vital accompaniment work that they do. PBI Guatemala accompanied the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (el Comité Campesino del Altiplano – CCDA) at a Mayan ceremony for… Read More ›
Brent Patterson
Interview with wrongfully imprisoned Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol
Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted a video of its Acércate (‘come closer’) interview with Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol in prison in Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Caal Xol is a leader of the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón, a collective… Read More ›
#NosDuelen56 – The Hogar Seguro fire, four years on
March 8th, as well as being International Women’s Day, is also the anniversary of the death of 41 young women and girls, in 2017, in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, (Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home) in San… Read More ›
PBI-Guatemala visits the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya
Brent Patterson writes in the PBI-Canada website about a recent visit to La Puya – ‘La Comunidad en Resistencia’ – as part of their accompaniment of the community fighting against the corrupt imposition of a gold mine on their territory,… Read More ›
