Nuestra Voz Nuestra Memoria: El genocidio en Guatemala
The Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) and the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) have released a 30 minute documentary, "Our Voice, Our Memory: The genocide in Guatemala". The documentary, available in full online, uses survivor and expert testimony to explain the concept of genocide, demonstrating how the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan military against indigenous Maya communities [...]
Military high command and former president arrested for Guatemalan genocide: Trials expected to open in 2012
Ten years have passed since genocide survivors filed cases against General Efraín Ríos Montt and members of his military high command. As a result of this investigation, in 2011, three former military officials—including a former president—have been arrested, andanother has been declared fugitive from justice. On October 12, 2011, arrest warrants were issued for retired General and former de facto [...]
Former General Wins Presidential Election in Guatemala
On November 6, Guatemala's presidential elections ended in a close victory for retired General Otto Pérez Molina. Pérez Molina's Patriot Party has promised an iron fist approach to security in the face of rising crime and international drug trafficking. Carrying a majority in urban and Eastern departments, Pérez Molina won 54% of the vote. With a populist discourse merging social [...]
Desparcimiento del agua residual contenida en la represa de cola de la mina Marlin
FRENTE DE DEFENSA MIGUELENSE (ADISMI, ADIM, FEBIMI, COMUNIDADES EN RESISTENCIA) “DENUNCIA” DESAPARECIMIENTO DEL AGUA RESIDUAL CONTENIDA EN LA REPRESA DE COLA DE LA MINA MARLINUNA AMENAZA GRAVÍSIMA SOBRE LA SALUD DE LAS COMUNIDADES SITUADAS EN LA PARTE BAJA Desde el comienzo de las operaciones mineras, en San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala, en 1996 cuando esta entró en el territorio [...]
New genocide charges brought against military high command
José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, former Director of Military Intelligence under the de facto government of Efraín Rios Montt, has become the second person to be formally charged with genocide after he was arrested on October 12, 2011.Rodríguez Sánchez is accused as an intellectual author of military counter-insurgency campaigns between 1982 and 1983, detailed in the military documents Plan Victoria 82, [...]
Hearing suspended pending verification of health of Héctor Mario López Fuentes
Julia Cortéz, legal representative of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR). The AJR and the Center for Legal Human Rights Action (CALDH) are the plaintiffs in the legal case against the retired general Héctor Mario López Fuentes, accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and forced disappearance.Graham HuntFirst suspended on September 21 and reprogrammed for October 3, the hearing for [...]