Statement from ADH: In Defense of Our Common Home, the Peoples of Huehuetenango Condemn the Pacto de Corruptos
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 ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF HUEHUETENANGO IN DEFENSE OF THE TERRITORY AND FOR THE AUTONOMY AND SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLES — ADH Before national and international public opinion, we hereby make the [...]
Statement from ACODET: 18 Years of Resistance — Communities Speak Out on Land, Water, and Political Crisis in Guatemala
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. ACODET – ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEFENSE OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DECLARATION OF THE XVIII ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY Coming together in assembly, delegates of communities threatened by the [...]
Statement from Coordinación Genocidio Nunca Más: Justice for the 45,000 Forcibly Disappeared
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. WHERE ARE THE 45,000 FORCIBLY DETAINED-DISAPPEARED PERSONS? On June 21, National Day Against Enforced Disappearance, families of victims, survivor collectives, and social organizations declare: Guatemala has faced a period of setbacks in delivering justice in cases [...]
Solidarity Letter: 9th Anniversary of the Peaceful Xinka Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Casillas, Santa Rosa
Dear members of the Peaceful Xinka Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Casillas, Santa Rosa, We, the undersigned international organizations, express our deepest respect and admiration for the nine years that you have maintained the resistance camp and for the over fifteen years that you have been organizing to exercise your self-determination and defend your water, land, identity and [...]
Statement from Casillas Resistance: 9 Years of Resistance—The Xinka People Still Say NO to Mining
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. For life and our land, here we are! Press release marking the 9th anniversary of the Xinka people’s peaceful resistance and the 15th anniversary of the Municipal Referendums requested by the residents of Santa Rosa de [...]
Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín: More Than 40 Years of Searching, Truth, and Justice (& Part 3)
This is the third and last part in a series of informational texts published by NISGUA, translated from materials produced by FAMDEGUA (Families of the Detained Disappeared of Guatemala) and Verdad y Justicia, about the forced disappearance of Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Memory is resistance. For over four decades, her family [...]