Guatemala: resisting destruction
Guatemala Women Defenders Defy Canadian Mines and Plead for Help
Guatemala: officers must face trial
Amnesty International has called for Guatemalan officers, accused of extrajudicial executions, to be brought to trial. This follows the arrest this week of a former official in Switzerland.
GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS CHALLENGE
An indigenous group has gone to court to challenge the government's legal right to change the mining law without consulting the indigenous population.The Center for International Environmental Law and MiningWatchCanada report.
Guatemala landslides bury hundreds
Weeks of heavy rain have caused landslides to hit numerous towns in Guatemala leaving death and destruction in their wake.
The Echo of Pain of the Many (Guatemala/England, 2012, Armadillo Productions)
Film screening followed by a Q&A session with Ana Lucía Cuevas, the film’s director. This event will serve as a preamble to the one-day conference The Right to Truth, Justice and Reparation in Latin America (4 June 2013).
Una pandemia de violencia machista desgarra Latinoamérica
The following article, published by El Pais from Spain, reports on a seminar organised by the Carlos III University in Madrid between 15-16 February, at which a group of specialists discussed the problem of gender violence in Latin America.
Guatemala must change its tax regime to stop children dying
Hannah Richards discusses the impact of the taxation structure on health, education and nutrition.
Tropas de élite guatemaltecas combatirán a los carteles en la frontera...
Spanish daily El País reports that Guatemala has decided to deploy elite troops in the border with Mexico, to fight drug cartels. In Spanish
Guatemala: Squeezed between Crime and Impunity
Guatemala: Squeezed between Crime and Impunity. A new report by International Crisis Group says that In Guatemala, crime has replaced political violence.
Guatemala’s president-elect warns of a coup
Powerful politicians in Guatemala overlooked the tiny centre-left Semilla Party who, with its offer of ‘a new Guatemalan Spring’, won a landslide victory against the UNE party of Sandra Torres on August 20.