On Friday June 14, the PBI – Guatemala Project accompanied Marcelino Xol Cucul and Jorge Coc from the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) at a court hearing in the city of Cobán. PBI-Guatemala has explained, “The CCDA is a peasant organization that accompanies and advises communities, mostly indigenous, that Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanied the Verapacense Union of Peasant Organizations (la Unión Verapacense de Organizaciones Campesinas – UVOC) at an assembly it held last week. UVOC is an indigenous and peasant organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of access to land in the context of historical dispossession Read more…
A remarkable story of resistance is unfolding in eastern Guatemala. Nuevo Dia (the New Day Central Indigenous Campesino Ch’orti’ organization) is opposed to the Industria de Canteras y Minas (Incamin) SA-owned Cantera Los Manantiales antimony mine on the territory of the Indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ people. For over 40 days, Maya Read more…
The TZ’KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism from Ixmulew in Guatemala was formed in October 2015 to defend Indigenous women’s rights and the land. Many of its members are healers, midwives, and herbalists. An article in La Agroecología notes (in Spanish) that TZ’KAT analyzes from a feminist and historical perspective how territorial dispossession has Read more…