Guatemalans Demand Answers from Distastefully-Named Gunpoint Exploration
News Release: Source: Mining Watch Canada - Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) (Ottawa/Guatemala City) Today, a letter from Guatemalans living in the vicinity of Gunpoint Exploration’s ‘El Escorpión’ project was sent to the company raising concerns about inadequate disclosure in company filings, particularly considering overwhelming results of a 2011 municipal referendum that rejected any mining in [...]
Solidarity Update: July 2016
News recap: Psychologist Maudi Tzay joins NISGUA this fall on tour in the United States; Eight former military to stand trial for charges in the CREOMPAZ case; Urban activists return to Central Square for the Day for Heroes and Martyrs; Seven political prisoners from Huehuetenango go to trial. This and more in this month's Solidarity Update. [...]
Marcha de la Memoria 30 de Junio 2016 – Comunicado de HIJOS
Comunicado de HIJOS el día de la Marcha de la Memoria, 30 de Junio, 2016 Digna Rebeldía Subversión de la Memoria Hoy compartimos con ustedes esta nuestra cueva de memoria, de lucha, de digna reVeldía; hoy queremos compartir que somos de carne, que tenemos huesos, que sangramos, que enfermamos y que luego sanamos. Lo sabemos, parece obvio. Es realmente común [...]
Words from Photographer CPR.Urbana on the National Day Against Forced Disappearance
In commemoration of the National Day Against Forced Disappearance in Guatemala, we share words from photographer CPR.Urbana on the importance of photography in the recuperation of historical memory. CPR.Urbana describes their project in the following way: The Communities of People in Resistance (CPRs) were civilian fronts of resistance against the counter-insurgent offensive carried out during the war in Guatemala, particularly between 1978 [...]
CREOMPAZ: Eight former military officers to stand trial for forced disappearances
On June 7, Judge Claudette Domínguez of Guatemala’s High-Risk Crimes Court “A” ordered eight former military officers to stand trial for crimes against humanity in one of the largest cases of forced disappearance in Latin America’s history. The legal case is built on eyewitness and expert testimonies, documentary evidence, and the physical remains found during 85 exhumations that have [...]
Building connections across borders for gender justice: Psychologist Maudí Tzay (ECAP) to join NISGUA on tour this Fall
A major legal victory took place in Guatemala earlier this year, when for the first time, sexual slavery was successfully tried as a crime against humanity. A former Colonel and Military Commissioner were convicted for crimes against humanity for sexual violence and sexual and domestic slavery committed against Q’eqchí women at the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s. [...]