Timeline - NISGUA

Join us on tour this Fall with JODVID!

nisgua_admin2017-12-08T21:33:23+00:00Tags: "Guatemalan Youth Defend Land and Life", cross-border organizing, environmental defenders, Escobal mine, JODVID, political education and horizontal exchange, Tahoe Resources, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco, tours, youth|

This fall, we’re excited to welcome Alex Escobar Prado as the featured speaker for this year's tour, "Guatemalan Youth in Defense of Land and Life!" Alex is an activist, educator, and a member of the [...]

Solidarity Update: May 2017

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:06:47+00:00Tags: accompanier perspective, accompaniment, actions, AJR, attacks, CALDH, Constitutional Court, Dos Erres, environmental defenders, genocide trial, impunity, Ixil, nisgua report, Rios Montt, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco|

News recap: Motions filed against former Constitutional Court judges for breach of duty in overturning the genocide verdict; Ríos Montt to stand trial for genocide for his role in the Dos Erres massacre; Accompanier perspective: [...]

Movements resisting resource extraction are being met with targeted violence

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:26:06+00:00Tags: attacks, environmental defenders, hydroelectric dams, megadevelopment projects, Mining, nisgua report, political prisoners, Tahoe Resources, UDEFEGUA, Xalalá Dam|

Over the last several decades, transnational resource extraction companies have flocked to Central America. Licenses to construct hydroelectric dams, exploit minerals, or build the necessary infrastructure to make these types of projects possible are [...]

Más de 2.900 personas de 59 países distintos piden al Ministerio Publico de Guatemala que investigue el asesinato de defensora del medio ambiente

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:19:30+00:00Tags: Alex Reynoso, comunicado, impunidad, JODVID, ROJO, Tahoe Resources, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco|

Comunicado de Prensa 17 de mayo de 2017 (Guatemala / Oakland, CA / Tatamagouche, NS) - El miércoles se entregó una carta al Ministerio Público de Guatemala en nombre de más de 2.900 personas que [...]

More than 2900 concerned individuals from 59 countries ask Guatemalan Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate murder of environmental defender

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:26:15+00:00Tags: actions, Alex Reynoso, environmental defenders, JODVID, justice, Mataquescuintla, Public Prosecutor's Office, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco, youth|

Press release May 17, 2017 (Guatemala/Oakland, CA/Tatamagouche, NS) -- On Wednesday, a letter was delivered to the Public Prosecutor’s office in Guatemala on behalf of more than 2,900 people requesting an immediate and thorough investigation [...]

Yes to life! Communities in the Ixcán commemorate 10 years since the referendum that said ‘no’ to resource extraction

nisgua_admin2018-07-02T16:58:16+00:00Tags: ACODET, community consultation, Ixcán, Referendum, resource extraction, Víctor Caal Tzuy, Xalalá Dam|

Ten years ago, community members from the Ixcán exercised their ancestral traditions and rights as indigenous peoples, holding a municipality-wide community referendum in which 89.7% of the 21,555 participants in the referendum voted against [...]