Photo: Patricia Goudvis The Mutual Support Group (Grupo De Apoyo Mutuo) has posted on Facebook and Twitter: “What independence if we are killed and disappeared? Women and men of the #GAM screamed as they interrupted the military parade of September 15, 1986.” September 15 is Guatemalan Independence Day. The Peace Read more…
Photo: The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project observed the eviction against the La Puya camp on May 23, 2014 that involved a disproportionate use of force by the police who were providing protection to the mining company. In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – Read more…
Photo: PBI-Guatemala accompanied the CCDA on a visit to communities of Xyaal Kobee and Xa Jobche in November 2019. The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanies the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA). PBI-Guatemala explains: “The CCDA is a peasant organization that accompanies and advises communities, mostly indigenous, that fight for Read more…
Bernardo Caal Xol has another court appearance today at 9 am CST (11 am EST) following a series of cancelled hearings. On July 29, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Yesterday we accompanied Bernardo Caal Xol and the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) to Bernardo’s appeal hearings which were suspended Read more…
Photo: Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen and her mother who is holding a photograph of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen. On August 18, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies the family in the Molina Theissen case looking for justice.” Nomada reports: “This Wednesday, August 19, the Higher Risk Chamber will Read more…
Photo by Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC). On August 16, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “We reiterate our concern about evictions of indigenous peasant families in the Verapaces!” The Committee of Peasant Unity (CUC) says that 40 Indigenous Q’eqchi’ families occupying the Cubilgüitz coffee farm have fled after an Read more…
On August 12, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on its Facebook page: “We stand in solidarity with the defender Ubaldino Garcia Canan and join the concern about his security situation.” Front Line Defenders explains: “On the night of 5 August 2020, unknown persons raided the home of indigenous rights Read more…
On August 13, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted about their accompaniment of the residents of Patzicia in their actions against corruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PBI-Guatemala article highlights: “Municipalities are one of the institutions which manage and control aid. Patzicía, a municipality in the department of Chimaltenango, located Read more…
Photo: Benoit Amedee Maria during a training with Ixiles de Quiché farmers. (Free Press Photo: Hector Lamb). On August 11, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “We also condemn the murder of Benoît Maria, the companion of the villages, and we express solidarity with his family and his friends.” France Read more…
The Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations (UVOC) is an Indigenous and peasant organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of access to land for the peasant population in the departments of Alta and Baja Verapaz. UVOC has 367 affiliated communities (about 50,000 families), 98 percent of which are Indigenous Maya Read more…