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A personal story of the "Disappeared" in Guatemala 24 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
The annual commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared takes place on August 30th and aims to draw attention to those people who have been imprisoned without their friends or relatives k...
Guatemalan State Can No Longer Afford to Neglect Food Security 4 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
This is an important article about the problems of hunger and malnutrition that affect people in Guatemala, especially its children and the state’s wilful inactivity in this regard. “On July 8, the G...
Interview with Juan Francisco Soto, Director of CALDH 3 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Twelve years went by before the querella lodged by the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) against the military high command finally got to court. It took two months for a judgment to be issu...
Despite the rejection, the cement plant is inaugurated. 23 Jul 2013 | 01:28 am
Sandra Sebastián accompanies her photographs of the demonstration against the cement plant in San Juan Sacatepéquez with some background. “Thousands of community members of San Juan Sacatepéquez demo...
Indigenous Guatemalans Reject Mining Moratorium, Want Genuine Community Consultation 21 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
“With the referendum, we decide our future” (photo NISGUA) The above photograph accompanies an article by Curtis Kline on the Intercontinental Cry website. “Mining in Guatemala has often been to the...
La Puya’s Celebration of Life, Peace, and Defense of the Earth 17 Jul 2013 | 02:01 am
On the same day that Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina announced a two-year moratorium on mining, human rights and environmental activist Santos Fidel Ajau Suret was gunned down after leaving the...
“Yes, there was genocide!”: Guatemala´s Ixil Vow to Keep Fighting for Justice 7 Jul 2013 | 11:15 pm
Rob Mercatante writes on the website of the Americas Program: “In the early hours of June 21 hundreds of human rights defenders, artists, feminists, musicians, religious workers, community organizers...
Guatemala: Defamation and the Cost of Speaking Out 4 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
Mary Lawlor, from Front Line Defenders, writes about defamation and the cost of speaking out – or if you prefer the cost of speaking truth to power - in Guatemala. “Once again Yuri Melini, Rafael Mal...
A Historic Verdict, Shadowed by the Past 2 Jul 2013 | 02:40 am
NISGUA has provided an in-depth analysis of the complex web of recent events in Guatemala including the groundbreaking conviction of Ríos Montt, the backlash of impunity that resulted in the overturn ...
Guatemala's sugar cane land rush anything but sweet for corn growers 27 Jun 2013 | 12:51 am
“For the past decade, the corn farmers of this village in southern Guatemala managed to scratch out two harvests of maize a year from the 10 hectares (24.7 acres) of land they rent. But the crop they ...
