Frank Jack Daniel spoke to people on all sides for a Reuters Special Report about what happened when Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, who took over Guatemala’s tax agency in 2016, took on a previously untouchable set of targets, and the… Read More ›
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UDEFEGUA denounces assaults at exhumation
ALERT We denounce assaults in the exhumation for the massacre of 116 children in 1988, in Cunén. This Tuesday, 28th September 2021, former civil defence patrollers (ex-PAC), blocked and obstructed the start of an exhumation programmed for today in the… Read More ›
Guatemalan families mourn death of children as hunger spreads
Government data show acute malnutrition among the under-fives rose by 80% in Guatemala in 2020 compared to 2019. Sofía Menchú writes in Reuters website about a particular tragedy which is a recurring scandal in Guatemala – a country with very… Read More ›
Hurricane Eta and the importance of local responses
Hurricane Eta reached Central America earlier this month and caused significant damage across the region in terms of flooding, landslides and huge crop destruction. Sofía Menchú wrote in Reuters about the effects on the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous community of Chicuz,… Read More ›