Author: Vicki Gass, LAWG On January 15, 2024,1 president-elect Bernardo Arévalo of the Semilla Party was inaugurated after five tense months since he was elected on August 20, 2023. Guatemalans from all sectors (led by the Indigenous communities), international non-governmental organizations like LAWG, and foreign governments mobilized to prevent corrupt public and private actors from overturning the … Read More
By Alejandra Garcia on May 19, 2024 The common border between Mexico and Guatemala, with the Suchiate River as its natural boundary, is facing record migration flows, with an increase of almost 200 percent in irregular migrants intercepted in the first quarter of this year in the Aztec country. In a historic meeting held in … Read More
Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. Mary Jo McConahay Observers from the Ixil Triangle sit in the front row at the trial of Guatemalan General Benedicto Lucas Garcia at the Tribunals Tower in Guatemala City. BY MARY JO MCCONAHAY MAY … Read More
By Gerry Condon, May 7, 2024, My partner Helen Jaccard and I are in Guatemala listening to testimony of the victims of a horrifying genocide that took place during the 36-year war against Mayan communities, union activists, revolutionaries, teachers, healthcare workers, co-ops, and anyone or anything that might be considered “communal,” or “communist.” This genocidal war began after the CIA … Read More
TFA Statement on the imprisonment of journalist Jose Ruben Zamora TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS condemns the Guatemalan government’s arrest of anti-corruption journalist Jose Ruben Zamora. As the publisher of the newspaper el Periodoco, Zamora’s arrest has alarmed people around the world about the deteriorating human rights situation and increased repression and censorship in Guatemala. Rights Action reports … Read More
