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Archive for the 'News' Category
Goldcorp mine in Guatemala ordered to shut
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Former Guatemalan Special Forces Soldier Indicted for Making False Statements on Immigration Forms Regarding 1982 Massacre of Guatemalan Villagers
Saturday, May 29th, 2010Thursday May 20, 2010.
A former Guatemalan special forces soldier was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Palm Beach County, Fla., for lying on his naturalization application about his participation in a 1982 massacre at a Guatemalan village known as Dos Erres, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Assistant Secretary John Morton of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Read More
Tags: Dos Erres, Guatemala, Indictment, Soilder
The Second Killing of Pablo Bac: Deafened by Canadian Silence and Impunity in Guatemala
Monday, April 26th, 2010FROM THE FATHER …
In 1981, Pablo Bac, a Mayan Qeqchi man from the community of Chichipate (municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala) was disappeared and killed. Read more . . .
Disappeared But Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict
Sunday, April 4th, 2010On August 31, 2009 a tribunal in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, sentenced former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj to 150 years in prison. Cusanero’s conviction for surreptitiously kidnapping and murdering six Guatemalan citizens in the early 1980s, keeping their whereabouts and fate concealed, marks the first time in Guatemalan history that a court has found a member of the military guilty of a crime against humanity. Read more
Tags: Add new tag, crimes against humanity, Guatemala, verdict
The Truth Under the Earth: The Relationship Between Genocide and Femicide in Guatemala
Monday, October 26th, 2009The war in Guatemala has never ceased. While the Peace Accords signed in 1996 demobilized some combatants and weapons - the killing, raping and torturing continues unabated. Read more . . .
Hudbay Minerals (Canadian mining company) linked to one and possible two deadly shootings on September 27 & 28.
Monday, September 28th, 2009It is reported that two people have been killed and over twenty injured in two attempted massacres, hours apart, of Maya Qeqchi people from communities attempting to defend their lands against Canadian nickel mining company HudBay Minerals. Read more . . .
Tags: Add new tag, Guatemala, Maya Qeqchi, mining, shootings
Guatemala: Mines Bring No Benefits to Local People
Friday, July 24th, 2009(IPS) - The new draft law on mining before the Guatemalan parliament does not strictly regulate water use and environmental protection, does not provide for community consultation, and sets royalties payable to the state at too low a level, say environmental and social organisations. Read more . . .
Tags: communities, Guatemala, mining
Military Coup in Honduras
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Democracy in Honduras was violated by a military coup this morning, but the people of Honduras have come to the defense constitutional order and democracy in Honduras. Read More . . .
MAYA MAM PEOPLE OF SAN MIGUEL IXTAHUACAN ARE THREATENED WITH MORE ‘CRIMINALIZATION’ AND REPRESSION
Saturday, June 20th, 2009The local Maya Mam population of Sacmuj, in the village of Agel, municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan (SMI), are in danger of illegal entry by the Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc, of criminalization of some community members, and of repression. Read more . . .
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