La Puya Encampment Celebrates First Anniversary of Peaceful Resistance
On Sunday, March 3, 2013 the communities of La Puya celebrated the one-year anniversary of non-violent resistance to the Tambor (Progreso VII) mining project, owned by US company Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA). During this year of struggle and resistance hundreds of citizens from the municipalities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, which surround the potential [...]
CPO Denounces Delay in Ruling on Guatemala’s Mining Law | Statement by the Western People’s Council
In July 2012 Guatemala’s Constitutional Court heard a landmark case challenging the constitutionality of the 1997 Mining Law. The legal action, presented by the Western Peoples’ Council (CPO), contends that the current law is unconstitutional because it fails to fulfill national and international mandates that require the State to consult with indigenous people regarding policies that will significantly impact [...]
NISGUA in the Media
Check out these recent interviews by current and former NISGUA staff in local media outlets! NISGUA's Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP) Director Bridget Brehen speaks about developments in the genocide case on KPFA's La Raza Chronicles: Former GAP Coordinator Phil Neff also spoke to KEXP's Mind Over Matters public affairs show about NISGUA and the significance of the genocide case: [...]
UNREDACTED | Update on Guatemalan Genocide Case by Kate Doyle
The following is reblogged from UNREDACTED, the National Security Archive Blog. We're posting Kate Doyle's article in full for her first-hand account of the most recent proceedings in the Guatemalan Genocide Trial. Follow the National Security Archive's work here. Guatemala City, February 4, 2013—Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ended a four-hour hearing today in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan [...]
Judge Gálvez Orders the Opening of a Public Oral Debate | Statement by the AJR and CALDH
WALKING TOWARD JUSTICE Today Guatemalan society is witness to a historic event. For the first time in our country, a judge has ordered the opening of a trial for the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ordered the opening of the public oral debate that allows the court to hear the respective evidence in [...]
Juez Gálvez ordena la apertura de un debate oral y público | Comunicado de AJR y CALDH
CAMINANDO HACIA LA JUSTICIA La sociedad guatemalteca hoy es testiga de un hecho histórico, por primera vez en nuestro país se dicta apertura a juicio por los delitos de genocidio y delitos contra deberes de humanidad. El juez Miguel Ángel Gálvez ordenó que la apertura de un debate oral y público que permita dar a conocer a un Tribunal [...]