Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PALEY Dawn Marie, SOLIS Isabel
“Isabel Solís has spent decades participating in struggles for freedom and in defense of life and communal land in Guatemala. One of the events that marked her childhood was the massacre of more than 15 adolescents, among them her 13-year-old cousin. Our conversation ranged from the current (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
A NATIONAL STRIKE led by Indigenous Guatemalans, as well as an institutional crisis over the peremptory firing of anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval, are shaking that Central American country.
Sandoval, forced to flee the country after his firing, has been investigating (...)
, by LINARES Luis
It’s a fact that always comes as a surprise. Guatemala, a country that ranks at the bottom in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of development and prosperity indicators, has an enviable unemployment rate : 2.9 per cent in 2012 and 2.5 per cent in 2019.
In a developed country, this (...)
, by KINOSIAN Sarah
As trusted individuals in a Guatemalan culture rooted in religion, pastors and priests play a role in the booming business behind immigration.
Early in the morning, Antonio knelt before an altar with white candles and a small statue of the Virgin Mary and prayed for a miracle.
It was (...)
, by VIDAL John
A farmers’ leader shot in the back is one of 18 activists killed this year, targeted for opposing evictions, logging and mining
Land rights protesters demanding the resignation of President Jimmy Morales in Guatemala City in 2017. Photograph: Esteban Biba/Epa-Efe/Rex Shutterstock
At (...)
, by Telesur
Laura Leonor Vasquez Pineda was a fierce opponent of mining near the El Escobal silver mine owned by the Canadian company Tahoe Resources.
Guatemalan environmentalist Laura Leonor Vasquez Pineda was shot dead Monday in the southeastern department of Jalapa, local authorities have confirmed. (...)
, by Telesur
Communities in Guatemala have repeatedly voiced their opposition to a Tahoe Resources silver mine. The company chose to ignore it ... and worse.
Canadian mining giant Tahoe Resources came under fresh fire Thursday for bulldozing human rights in Guatemala as two organizations filed a (...)
, by FoE
Join Friends of the Earth International in calling for the release of nine political prisoners in Barillas, Guatemala, who are due before a hearing on November 26.
Click here to send a mail to the Guatemalan authorities: http://action.foei.org/page/speakout/demand-the-immediate-release-of-the-pris
, by FoE
SAN SALVADOR (EL SALVADOR), November 19, 2012 - An international mission organized by environmental federation Friends of the Earth International in Guatemala and El Salvador has verified systematic human rights violations and criminalization of environmental activists and communities (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Rubén Herrera was arrested as he left his house in Huehuetenango district, Guatemala on March 15 this year. He is still in prison more than two months later.
Rubén has been an active community organiser, working on many environmental and social justice campaigns and bringing together (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
WHILE THE COUP in Honduras was successful, in Guatemala an attempted “cold” coup unraveled. Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered on May 10, 2009; the following day the media ran a video filmed shortly before his death. In it Rosenberg stated that if he were killed, President Alvaro Colom and his (...)
, by IPS
MEXICO CITY, Jun 22 (IPS) - ”Death to the bitches, I’m back” read a sign found next to the body of one of the nearly 1,700 Guatemalan women who have been murdered in the past five years.
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on (...)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Noam Chomsky on the US intervention and coup following the 1944 revolution which overthrew Guatemala’s brutal dictator.
There was one place in Central America that did get some US media coverage before the Sandinista revolution and the contra war in Nicaragua, and that was Guatemala. In (...)
, by NAIRN Allan
An article detailing the peak in US-Guatemalan collaboration in state terror.
Local businessmen and government officials involved with Guatemala’s notorious death squads say they have struck a deal with Ronald Reagan which provides for restoration of U.S. weapon sales and training (...)
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