Alejandro Melgoza and Alex Papadovassilakis present an important and fascinating report, on InSight Crime, into how a shadowy timber mafia, with ties to Asia, is illegally extracting precious wood on the Guatemala-Mexico border. They document how illegal loggers have ravaged… Read More ›
Logging
Indigenous communities mobilize to defend Guatemala’s forests from loggers
Jeff Abbott writes in the Waging Nonviolence website about indigenous communities protecting their forests from logging interests. Across Guatemala, indigenous communities are organizing to challenge logging in the country’s vast forests. These communities are concerned with the impact that both… Read More ›
Protect Lolita Chávez for her defense of natural resources
The following alert is from IM-Defensoras and can be viewed here. Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, an active membre of the Council of the Ki’che’ Peoples (CPK), is a woman human rights defender who has constantly spoken out against acts of… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 