Two Elections, Two Different Outcomes: What’s Next for Human Rights in Guatemala and El Salvador?
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
New Bill in Honduras Seeks to Rectify 1980s Human Rights Violations
By Michael Fox on May 30, 2024 Bertha Oliva posing in front of the photos of some of the 200 detained and disappeared. photo: Michael Fox In Honduras, family members of the victims of state violence in the 1980s have been marching for 40 years to demand justice for the disappearance and death of their … Read More
The Division Within the MAS Exposes Bolivia to Imperialist Victory
By Prof. Dr. Fernando Esteche on May 28, 2024 When the social movements built the political tool MAS-IPSP (Movement towards Socialism – Political Instrument of the Sovereignty of the People), it was clear that political sovereignty fell to a conglomerate of movements or organizations that had their own logic for constructing representation. Without fear of … Read More
There is Only One Cuba
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba photo: Bill Hackwell On May 28, the Government of the United States finally announced a group of measures aimed at implementing the policy announced on May 16, 2022. The purpose of this step, according to the text published by the Office of Foreign … Read More