Central America
Guatemala: emergency over mining protests
Guatemala’s government declared a state of emergency in four municipalities in the eastern highlands following clashes between police and anti-mining protesters.
Tag: Guatemala
Central America
Nicaragua: Korean firm accused in attack on maquila workers
US labor groups say Sae-A managers arranged an attack on unionists, while mainstream Nicaraguan unions say it’s a US conspiracy. Next stop for Sae-A is Haiti.
Central America
Guatemala: victims challenge suspension of Ríos Montt trial
Indigenous survivors of the Guatemalan army’s “scorched earth” strategy in the 1980s say they will push to lift the suspension of a former dictator’s genocide trial.
The Andes
US high court ruling threatens human rights suits
A legal tool US advocates have used against human rights abusers for three decades is now "close to a dead letter" thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
Central America
Guatemala: Ríos Montt trial implicates president
Murders of activists continue while attention is focused on the trial of former dictator Ríos Montt and testimony against current president Pérez Molina.
Central America
Guatemala: Rios Montt goes on trial at last
After 30 years of efforts by victims and advocates, former military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt is on trial for genocide—while the current president denies there was genocide in Guatemala.
North America
Sentenced SOA protester: ‘Where is the justice?’
A federal magistrate judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced "Nashua" Chantal to the maximum for trespassing at the US Army's Fort Benning base to protest the notorious SOA.
Central America
Guatemala: students march against ‘reform’
Teachers’ college students march 50 kilometers to protest new requirements for teachers; meanwhile, two grassroots leaders are murdered in just three days.
Central America
Guatemala: campaign for evicted campesinos
An international campaign is demanding that President President Otto Pérez Molina provide land for indigenous campesino families expelled from their fields in the Polochic Valley.
Central America
Guatemala: ex-dictator to stand trial for genocide
A Guatemalan judge ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the killing of more than 1,700 Maya villagers.
Mexico
Mexico bans Maya ceremony at ancestral temples
Tourists are flocking to Mexico for the “end of the Maya calendar,” but Maya elders protest that they are barred from performing ceremonies at the archeological sites.
Central America
Criminal gangs threaten Maya Biosphere Reserve
Mexican drug cartels that use cattle ranching to launder narco-profits as well as Chinese-backed illegal timber gangs are eating into Guatemala's vast Maya Biosphere Reserve.