Lecturas recomendadas
Creemos que la solidaridad transnacional es un compromiso de por vida, fundamentado en la educación y llevado a la práctica a través de la acción. Estas lecturas ofrecen parte del contexto más amplio, que se analiza y profundiza de manera más específica en nuestro blog, las Actualizaciones Solidarias y los informes.
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