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 [...]
Five Years After the Arrest of Officials Implicated in the Military Diary Case, Families Continue to Await Justice
On May 27th, 2021, the Guatemalan government arrested eleven former members of its military for crimes committed during the Internal Armed Conflict. These crimes are logged in the "Military Diary" a fifty-four page document leaked to the US National Security Archive and made public on May 20th, 1999. The document details the murder and forced disappearance of 183 people between [...]
Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín: More Than 40 Years of Searching, Truth, and Justice (Part 2)
This is the second 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. LUZ LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ AGUSTÍN CASE: MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF [...]
Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín: More Than 40 Years of Searching, Truth, and Justice (Part 1)
This is the first 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. In November 1982, at the height of one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's Internal Armed Conflict, Luz Leticia Hernández [...]