Timeline - NISGUA

May 2016

Solidarity Update: May 2016

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:06:52+00:00Tags: Alliance to End Silence and Impunity, CONRED, CREOMPAZ, El Tambor, House parties, Kappes Cassiday and Associates, La Cuchilla, Military Zone 21, ministry of energy and mines (MEM), Quesada, Referendum, Sepur Zarco, Tahoe Resources, tours, Xinca|

News recap: Final arguments heard to determine whether CREOMPAZ case will be sent to trial; More than 99% of participants vote ‘NO’ to resource extraction in Quesada municipal consultation; Guatemala’s highest court upholds suspension order [...]

International organizations call on KCA to suspend operations

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:44:44+00:00Tags: community consultation, Constitutional Court, El Tambor, Kappes Cassiday & Associates, La Puya, Mining, ministry of energy and mines (MEM), sign-on letter, Supreme Court|

International Organizations Reiterate Support for Guatemalan Communities and Institutions Upholding Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights in the case of the communities of La Puya and El Tambor Mine The undersigned human rights and [...]

CALDH reports from the closed-door retrial of Ríos Montt

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T17:54:26+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, crimes against humanity, genocide, Ixil, retrial, Rios Montt|

The following are translations from the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), plaintiff in the genocide case against former dictator Ríos Montt and his Head of Military Intelligence, Rodríguez Sánchez. CALDH and the [...]

More than 99% of participants in the Quesada municipal consultation oppose mining

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T17:14:27+00:00Tags: CODIDENA, community consultation, municipal consultation, Xinca Parliament|

This weekend, the municipality of Quesada, Jutiapa held a consultation in which 99% of voters expressed their firm opposition to resource extraction activities taking place in their territories. Consultations organized at the community and [...]

Communities Rise Up: Report-back on NISGUA’s delegation to communities organized in resistance to Tahoe Resources

nisgua_admin2017-12-08T21:25:45+00:00Tags: accompaniment, CODIDENA, community consultation, cross-border organizing, delegations, Escobal mine, Tahoe Resources|

In the fall of 2015, Llan Carlos Dávila from the Diocesan Committee in Defense of Nature (CODIDENA) toured the U.S. to speak about CODIDENA’s efforts to stop the development and expansion of Tahoe Resources’ Escobal [...]

April 2016

Family members of disappeared Marco Antonio Molina Theissen move forward in their search for justice

nisgua_admin2017-12-11T13:55:19+00:00Tags: CALDH, CREOMPAZ, crimes against humanity, forced disappearance, IACHR, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, military intelligence|

Photo of 14-year-old Marco Antonio Molina Theissen. Photo credit: Lucrecia Molina Theissen The submission of preliminary evidence in the Molina Theissen trial was expected in Guatemala's First Instance Tribunal last week but was [...]