The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has posted on social media:
“Yesterday [August 31], #PBI accompanied the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa, Chiquimula, to the local Justice of the Peace Court, where ancestral authorities from the Council and other members of the Community Development Council (COCODE) participated in a dialogue. The meeting, a response to several acts of discrimination against ancestral authorities, aimed to promote respect and coexistence among the different forms of community organization, as well as contribute to ending the discrimination faced by ancestral authorities within the Community Development Council.”
Peace Brigades International has accompanied the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula since June 2021.
We continue to follow this.
