Project Description
Community Consultations: A model of resistance under attack in Guatemala
A bill currently before Guatemalan Congress seeks to co-opt the consultation process and violate the rights of indigenous communities to free, prior, and informed consent. Add your voice in calling on the Guatemalan government to respect the results of community-organized consultations.
Three ways to take action:
1. Print out the postcard and mail it to NISGUA’s office for delivery
2. Read more about the incredible role that consultations play in community organizing to protect land, life, and self-determination
3. Sign the extended action! Petition available here.
Photo: Graham HuntAdditional reading about community consultations
đ¸ September Solidarity Update
The rains have finally arrived in Guatemala, softening the earth that holds so many stories: of loss, of resistance, of return. In the Maya cosmovision, time is not a line but a spiral: what was planted long ago comes back, transformed. This season, we've witnessed that return. Remains laid [...]
Waiting for the verdict: the Luz Leticia Case, 44 years later
On September 17, a Guatemalan court will finally answer a question her family has been asking since 1982. The last day anyone saw her On November 22, 1982, Luz Leticia HernĂĄndez AgustĂn turned 25. It was her birthday â and it was the last day anyone ever saw her. [...]
Statement on the Luz Leticia Case: 44 years. Truth and justice, no more impunity.
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. WHERE IS SHE? LUZ LETICIA HERNĂNDEZ AGUSTĂN 44 years after her forced disappearance we demand TRUTH and JUSTICE Families and advocates of victims of the Internal [...]
âJustice Has Failed Us Here in Guatemalaâ: A Family Fights for Accountability
This article was written by Kala Garrido and Eric Ross, originally published by Common Dreams and republished under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Read the original here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/fight-accountability-guatemala More than 44 years have now passed since Guatemalan state forces abducted Luz Leticia; every day since, [...]
Accompanier Perspectives: The Long Road to Foster International Solidarity
Internacionalista Manni Spicer Saavedra (he/him) wrote this reflection in August 2026. With a fellow accompanier, I wait on a highway overpass for a taxi that has now cancelled three times in a row, watching a little black car icon make progress, stall and inevitably double-back [...]
Statement from ADH: Santiago Chimaltenangoâs Mam Communities Renew Vow to Defend Sacred Territory Against Extractive Threats
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. PRESS RELEASE FROM THE HISTORIC RESISTANCE OF THE PEOPLEÂ IN DEFENSE OF THEIR TERRITORY: SANTIAGO CHIMALTENANGO, HUEHUETENANGO. Our statement for national and international communities to consider: [...]
