Recommended readings
We believe that transnational solidarity is a lifelong commitment founded in education and embodied by praxis. These readings provide some of the larger context that is further focused and deepened in our blog, Solidarity Updates, and reports.
Guatemalan history
- “Introduction” of Victor Perrera’s “Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy” >PDF
- “Historical Background” in “Negotiating Rights: The Guatemalan Peace Process” by Patrick Costello >PDF
- “Cuarto Pueblo: Witness to a Massacre,” Testimony by Juan Balthazar, recorded by Rachel Holder >PDF
- Findings of the UN Commission for Historical Clarification >PDF
- Maps of regions and departments >PDF
Defense of Life and Territory
- “Consulta Previa, County Study: Guatemala” Americas Quarterly >PDF
- “Community consultations: A model of resistance” NISGUA >PDF
- “Commemorating 10 years of community consultations in defense of land and life” NISGUA >PDF
- “Consulta Indígena: A qué viene el convenio de la OIT 169?” AVISPA MIDIA >PDF
- “Guatemala needs to do more to stop the killings of indigenous activists” Washington Post >PDF
- “The stages of criminalization” >PDF
- “Resisting Hydroelectric Dams in Guatemala: A matter of life and death” UpsideDown World >PDF
- “Water is Life: How to stop a dam through Indigenous resistance” NISGUA >PDF
- “Damned if they do” This Week From Indian Country Today >PDF
- “Tahoe on Trial: Guatemalan communities rise up to defend land and life” NISGUA >PDF
- “‘If we’re attacked, we’ll die together,’ a teenage mining-activist told her family. But when the bullets came, they killed only her” Los Angeles Times >PDF
- “In defense of land: Environmental defenders on the frontlines of the global struggle for community self-determination and respect for the Earth” NISGUA >PDF
Justice and Accountability
- “18 years seeking justice in the courts” NISGUA >PDF
- “Impunity’s Eclipse: The Long Journey to the Historic Genocide Trial in Guatemala” International Center for Transitional Justice >PDF
- “El sistema legal, usando el ejemplo de los casos contra Ríos Montt y Lucas García” >PDF
- “Plan de Operación Sofía” >PDF
- “Genocide case basics” >PDF
- “The General on Trial” NISGUA >PDF
- “The Rodríguez Sánchez Genocide Retrial: Highlights of the Proceedings” Jo-Marie Burt, Paulo Estrada >PDF
- “5 takeaways from the recent genocide trial verdict” NISGUA >PDF
- “CREOMPAZ: The largest case of forced disappearance in Latin America” NISGUA >PDF
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“Forced Disappearance: Resilience and Creativity in the Defense of Memory and Search for Justice” NISGUA >PDF
- “Sepur Zarco: Q’eqchi’ women set a precedent in Guatemala with first-ever conviction for sexual and domestic slavery” NISGUA >PDF