‘Justice Has Failed Us Here in Guatemala’: A Family Fights for Accountability

This article was written by Kala Garrido and Eric Ross, originally published by Common Dreams and republished under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Read the original here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/fight-accountability-guatemala More than 44 years have now passed since Guatemalan state forces abducted Luz Leticia; every day since, [...]

Accompanier Perspectives: The Long Road to Foster International Solidarity

Internacionalista Manni Spicer Saavedra (he/him) wrote this reflection in August 2026. With a fellow accompanier, I wait on a highway overpass for a taxi that has now cancelled three times in a row, watching a little black car icon make progress, stall and inevitably double-back [...]

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 [...]

2026-08-21T16:34:13+00:00May 27th, 2026|Justice and accountability, US foreign policy|

Statement: For the self-determination of peoples and internationalist solidarity

[Español a continuación] The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) shares its position on the illegal military action carried out by the United States in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, which culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and in the context of the current [...]

Statement from ADH: Solidarity with Venezuela Against U.S. Military Strikes

Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION: On this January 3, 2026, we strongly condemn and repudiate the actions and policies of U.S. President Donald Trump [...]

Accompanier Perspectives: Neoliberalism & Forced Migration – Violence Against Guatemala’s Indigenous Peoples

Internacionalista Taz (they/elle) wrote this reflection in August 2025. Late July, it is hot in Santa Anita las Canoas, the small Maya Kaqchikel community in Chimaltenango, a department in the central highlands of Guatemala. The dirt glows orange. Leaves of the coffee trees shift and shimmer. Don Aguilar(1) sits [...]

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