Clark Taylor, presente!
Photo courtesy of Needham Guatemala Partnership Clark Taylor (and his late wife Kay) were champions and stalwarts of the Needham Sponsoring Community (which they founded). Clark's volunteer field work with anthropologist Beatriz Manz in the 1970s and 80s contributed to her books Refugees of a Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala and Paradise in Ashes, [...]
Rest in power Don Marcial 🌻
Photo by: Rode Díaz. 2013 "When the moment comes that I disappear from this world, I do not want a pantheon to be built for me, because Mother Earth gave me everything I needed to live, and since I have no other resource to give back to Mother Earth, then my body will be my payment. From her [...]
10 Puntos para comprender la Crisis Política y el Paro Nacional en Guatemala
“La crisis en Guatemala no es coyuntural, la crisis es estructural” Han sido 17 días en los que los Pueblos de Guatemala han expresado su rechazo hacia las acciones de corrupción, impunidad y perpetuación en el poder de funcionarios y funcionarias públicos. En específico han exigido la renuncia de la Fiscal General Consuelo Porras, así como Rafael Curruchiche, [...]
10 Points to Understand the Political Crisis and National Strike in Guatemala
The crisis in Guatemala is not an isolated moment, it is a structural crisis It has been 17 days of the people of Guatemala expressing their rejection of public officials’ actions of corruption, impunity and perpetuation in power. Specifically, they have demanded the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, as well as Rafael Curruchiche, Cinthya Monterroso and Fredy [...]
Assembly of Indigenous Authorities to the People of Guatemala and the International Community
We want to express our rejection of Consuelo Porras' request to dismiss the Minister of the Interior. Her persistence is of note to us, given the fact that the current situation in the country is a consequence of the Attorney General's stubbornness in not resigning, which confirms her coupist disposition. It is unprecedented that she now uses the violation [...]
The Indigenous People and Ancestral Authorities to the People of Guatemala make known:
That after 12 days of peaceful demonstrations throughout the national territory, a meeting was held with the President of the Republic, Alejandro Giammattei, with the mediation of the Organization of American States (OAS), in which the demands of the people were presented. That the results of the first meeting demonstrated a lack of political will on the part of [...]