[Español abajo] September marks the month when Guatemala celebrates its independence—but for many communities, the promise of freedom remains unfulfilled. Indigenous People, environmental defenders, and social movements continue facing systemic racism, inequality, and criminalization. Across the country, communities keep resisting, creating, and organizing, showing that real freedom comes not [...]
[Español abajo] In recent years, Guatemala has been experiencing growing water scarcity, driven both by climate change and by the unregulated use of water by extractive industries and monocultures. Since 1991, Guatemalan legislators have introduced 13 bills aimed at creating a Water Law, yet none have been passed. The [...]
Tema: "Cosecha" Hay algo poderoso en la temporada de cosecha — ese momento cuando meses o años de cuidado paciente finalmente dan fruto. Las semillas plantadas con esperanza se transforman en sustento, en celebración, en prueba de que la persistencia vale la pena. Para nuestro calendario de solidaridad 2026, [...]
Theme: "Harvest" There's something powerful about harvest season — that moment when months or years of careful tending finally bear fruit. Seeds planted with hope transform into sustenance, into celebration, into proof that persistence pays off. For our 2026 solidarity calendar, we're exploring "Harvest" in all its forms. We're [...]
Ethan estuvo en Guatemala como Internacionalista con NISGUA durante 2024–2025. Escribió esta última carta en enero de 2025, reflexionando sobre su experiencia y sobre las personas y movimientos que dejaron una profunda huella en elle. El 28 de noviembre de 2024, la Corte Primera de Apelaciones (cuyos miembros tienen [...]
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. // Puedes encontrar el comunicado original en español más abajo. Coordinating Committee of Ixil Organizations With the energy of our grandmothers and grandfathers of the ka’va’l [...]
La internacionalista Greta (elle/ella) escribió esta carta en septiembre de 2024 y la revisó en marzo de 2025. Hoy quiero escribirles sobre organización intergeneracional, la formación de comunidad campesina, conexión con la tierra y lo que se necesita para sostener un movimiento durante casi dos décadas. Estos aprendizajes se [...]
(Español más abajo) On February 25, 2025, a march took place in Guatemala to commemorate National Victims' Dignity Day of the Internal Armed Conflict. The mobilization, which gathered over 500 people, began at the Supreme Court of Justice and ended at Constitution Plaza. Participants, mostly family members and survivors, [...]
[Español abajo] Published October 31st, 2024 by CALDH (Center for Legal Action in Human Rights for its initials in Spanish) THERE WAS GENOCIDE IN GUATEMALA Two Courts of Justice have ruled that there was genocide in Guatemala. The commitment of this crime against humanity could not have occurred without [...]
Español a continuación The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people who defend life and territory, resist occupation and apartheid, and struggle against colonization and imperial domination in all its forms. Over the last 364 days, the Zionist [...]
En abril y junio, la ADH (Asamblea Departmental por la Defensa de los Territorios de Huehuetenango) se reunió con otras organizaciones y comunidades de la Costa Sur, Huehuetenango, y Quiché para compartir sus estrategías y sabiduría sobre la defensa del territorio. Escribieron estos comunicados que incluyen información sobre el [...]
In April and June, ADH (the Departmental Assembly for the Defense of Territories of Huehuetenango) met with other organizations and communities from the Southern Coast, Huehuetenango, and Quiché to exchange strategies and wisdom about the defense of territory. They wrote these statements that include context for their struggle and [...]
Tuesday, July 30th, Hearing 56 “We lived with the fear that at any moment they could kill us, too.” Survivor of the Ixil genocide In today’s hearing, the Public Prosecutor’s Office presented two pieces of documentary evidence along with the audio recording of a witness’s advance testimony. The first [...]
On July 26, 2024, over a hundred people joined the Departmental Assembly of the People of Huehuetenango in Defense of Territory and for the Autonomy and Free Determination of the People -ADH- in celebrating their anniversary in Aguacatán, Huehuetenango, the latest municipality to win a water protection agreement in [...]
En 26 de Julio, 2024, más que cien personas se unieron a La Asamblea Departmental de los Pueblos de Huehuetenango en Defensa del Territorio y por la Autonomía y Libre Determinación de los Pueblos para celebrar su aniversario en Aguacatán, Huehuetenango, la municipalidad que más recientamente logró un Acuerdo [...]
Foto de NISGUA. Testigos de la defensa declaran en el Juicio por Genocidio Ixil. Martes, 16 de julio. Lunes 15 de julio, audiencia 47 El lunes 15, las abogadas de Manuel Benedicto Lucas García presentaron a 2 testigos en favor del acusado. A petición de la defensa se [...]
Fotografía de: NISGUA. Tablero dentro de la Resistencia Pacífica de Casillas, mayo de 2024. Este 7 de junio se cumplieron 7 años de la “Resistencia de Casillas” que mantiene el pueblo Xinka como una de las acciones que ha realizado para defender su territorio contra la mina Escobal [...]
ESPAÑOL ABAJO Case: Ixil Genocide, period of the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, (July 1, 1978 to March 23, 1982) In 2008, the ODHAG accepted the request of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation -AJR-(1),to direct the investigation and the legal action in a [...]
The Xinka people maintain a struggle to protect life, water and territory from deadly extractive megaprojects, including the Escobal mine. Their commitment to defend life against transnational corporations has cost them criminalization, injuries, and assassinations. Ten years after the murder of 16-year-old Topacio Reynoso Pacheco in the attack that [...]
This week, the hearings were accompanied by members of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) of the Kaqchikel region, Ancestral Indigenous Authorities of the Ixil region of Nebaj and various national and international civil society organizations. Monday, April 8th, 2024 On the third day of hearings [...]
The Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of Guatemala (ODHAG) denounces that during the early morning hours of February 14, the offices of Culture and Peace, the programs of historical memory, childhood, conflict transformation and community organization were broken into by unknown persons. They report the theft of laptop [...]
![[ENG] A photograph taken in a street in the open air, a table with books and yellow flowers, in front a sign with beige background and red letters reading: "Free Palestine" accompanied by a Palestinian flag (black, red, white and green colors). Behind a multitude of people standing or sitting on some concrete bleachers, some of them holding the Guatemalan flag (light blue and white). [ESP] Fotografía tomada en una calle al aire libre, una mesa con libros y flores amarillas, delante un cartel con fondo beige y letras rojas en el que se lee: "Palestina libre" acompañado de una bandera palestina (colores negro, rojo, blanco y verde). Detrás una multitud de personas de pie o sentadas en unas gradas de hormigón, algunas de ellas sosteniendo la bandera de Guatemala (azul claro y blanco).](https://nisgua.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestina-guatemala-1-320x202.jpeg)
La Red de Solidaridad con el Pueblo de Guatemala (NISGUA) reafirma su solidaridad con el pueblo Palestino que defiende la vida y el territorio, resiste la ocupación y el apartheid, y lucha contra la colonización y la dominación imperial en todas sus formas. Durante más de 100 días, han [...]
The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) reaffirms our commitment and solidarity with people organized in the struggle to defend life and territories and in resistance to occupation and apartheid, which through colonial tactics justify the violence against and dehumanization of Palestinian and Indigenous Peoples. For [...]
This October we want to honor the current struggle of the People against colonialism, capitalism, imperialism. The legacy of today's resistances will be the freedom of the People of tomorrow! It is so powerful to see, hear, and feel the People calling out: No to corruption, no to laws [...]
Durante años la Asamblea Departamental de los Pueblos de Huehuetenango (ADH) ha permanecido firme en la defensa del territorio desde diferentes estrategias, el pasado 21 de junio de 2023, se firmó el 4to acuerdo Municipal de Protección del Agua, en el que se acuerda aprobar expresamente y de carácter [...]
Este mes para Guatemala y sus luchas ha significado la reafirmación de que la lucha por la vida y dignidad será en sus formas, o no será. Por un lado, las elecciones representan el sentir y necesidad de dejar atrás sistemas corruptos, dándole el voto de confianza a la [...]
On the 17th anniversary of the Departmental Assembly of the Peoples of Huehuetenango - ADH, we share the statement they made in the framework of their celebration and their meeting with the peoples in struggle for the Defense of Territory in El Río San Juan de Aguacatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. [...]
Thank you for joining us in this May edition of NISGUA’s Solidarity Update. This month has been a month of justice. Not because of access to it, but because despite the lack of it, the people have never ceased to demand it. This month, hundreds of people took to [...]
March has been a month of transitions, from winter to spring, and in the processes of Mother Earth: it is the time to sow! Together, let us sow seeds of solidarity, resistance, and rebellion. Ancestral wisdom teaches us that, in order to grow, seeds must take root in fertile [...]
Susanne Jones has died. Long Live Susanne Jonas! By Mary Jo McConahay Susanne Jonas, prolific author, teacher, and indefatigable social justice activist on behalf of Guatemala, and Central America more broadly, died while hospitalized with pneumonia in Oakland on August 31, 2022. She was 80. [...]
By Feliciana Herrera The 48 cantons of Totonicapán give "full support" to the indigenous authorities of Nebaj. "The indigenous authorities of Nebaj managed to legally stop the eviction that the municipal mayor Geronimo Bernal Guzman intended to carry out, and have joined to support the 48 Cantons of Totonicapan, [...]
Ixil Region B'OQ'OL Q'ESAL TENAM NAAB'A' INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF NEBAJ, EL QUICHÉ LOS B'OQ'OL Q'ESAL TENAM NAAB'A' TO THE MAYA IXIL PEOPLE, THE NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, WE COMMUNICATE: 1. We have information about the arbitrary and illegal decision of the Municipal Mayor Virgilio Geronimo Bernal Guzman; First Trustee [...]
As committed supporters of our work, you know that building deep relationships of solidarity to create collective justice is what NISGUA has always been about! However, significant barriers exist to creating these realities, like underfunding for projects of liberation, or funding that artificially siloes movements by separating them into [...]
Es de vital importancia informarles a los pueblos en todo el mundo, que este 25 de Julio, la ADH conmemoró 15 años de lucha y resistencia en defensa del territorio y los bienes comunes. En el caminar de los años, l@s miembros de la ADH hemos pasado por amenazas, [...]
MANIFESTAMOS: Nosotros y nosotras las autoridades indígenas, autoridades ancestrales cocodes, comités de mujeres de las diferentes comunidades indígenas de Ixcan, Cobán y Uspantan que conformamos la asociación de comunidades para el desarrollo, defensa de la tierra y los recursos naturales ACODET reunidos hoy en la comunidad indígena Q’eqchi [...]