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 ›
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The Guatemalan Link between Jalisco New Generation Cartel and FARC Dissidents
Julie López writes, in El Faro English, on the strengthening of narco-trafiking interests in Guatemala providing links between Colombia and Mexico, noting the influence at various levels of the Government and military. Northwestern Guatemala has been known for years as… Read More ›
“We weren’t dreaming of a coffin… now our family is just trying to survive”
Daniela Rea wrote in Pie De Página about the murder of 19 year old Santa Cristina García Pérez and eighteen others, for which Mexican state police officers have been accused by the State Attorney General. There tends to be plenty… Read More ›
13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say
Kate Linthicum and Jeff Abbott write a very sad story in the Los Angeles Times, highlighting the frightening dangers posed to migrants heading north, through extremely hostile territory, to the United States. As 15-year-old Robelson Isidro left Guatemala this month,… Read More ›
Ayotzinapa – EuroCaravana 43 comes to London
It is estimated that some 45,000 people were disappeared during the armed conflict in Guatemala. Family members of the disappeared are still waiting to find out what the State did to them – to find out the truth. The pain… Read More ›
Mexican Human Rights Defender in London
Peace Brigades International have organised a visit to London of the Mexican human rights defender Tita Radilla. She is the vice-president of the Mexican Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared and Victims of Human Rights Violations (AFADEM). Her visit… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 