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Forgotten Promises in Guatemala Leave Indigenous Peoples Poorer and Hungrier

December 12, 2010

GUATEMALA By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Dec 12, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly three years into President Álvaro Colom’s four-year term, Guatemala’s indigenous people have seen little improvement in their lives — and they represent approximately half the country’s population. “The situation of the native peoples may be even worse than before. Poverty has increased,...
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Guatemala: Systemic Injustice and Impunity, Part 2

January 11, 2010

January 11, 2010 (On January 7, 2010, we sent to our listserv Part 1) In 2010, Rights Action continues our long-term work of funding and supporting community-based groups that have suffered injustices (repression, human rights violations, environmental injustice) and are struggling to end impunity in Guatemala. Injustice and impunity are not a crisis in...
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Guatemala: Systemic Injustice and Impunity, Part 1

January 7, 2010

January 7, 2010 In 2010, Rights Action continues our long-term work of funding and supporting community-based groups that have suffered injustices (repression, human rights violations, environmental injustice) and are struggling to end impunity in Guatemala. Injustice and impunity are not a crisis in Guatemala. This is not a tragedy. Rhetoric aside about democracy, sovereignty...
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Angels in Guatemala: Confronting a Legacy of Official Terror

January 5, 2010

Jan 5 2010 Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens On February 25, 2009, some 18,000 Guatemalans, mostly survivors or relatives of victims of the state-sponsored terror of the 1970s and 1980s, gathered in Guatemala City’s Plaza of the Constitution, to commemorate the “Day of Dignity for the Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict.” There, they heard President Alvaro...
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Water Contamination from Mining Gets Worse

October 7, 2009
Water Contamination from Mining Gets Worse

By Copae Last year, the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), in the diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, issued a report showing increased levels of arsenic in the water.around the Marlin mine. The difference between the data of October 2007, March 2008 and February 2009 is enormous. The range difference between what is...
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