Events for International Development Week 2021
Thanks to the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation for hosting IDW 2021! You are invited to our International Development Week event! Join BTS Cooperants Laura and Indigo for an interactive [...]
EMERGENCY SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR BTS PARTNERS
Dear BTS Friends, Right now, your commitment to justice, hope, and solidarity on a local and global scale is more important than ever. The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network has [...]
APG Letter to Minister Garneau: Concern Regarding Undermining of Human Rights Ombudsman in Guatemala
February 17, 2021 The Honourable Marc Garneau, P.C., M.P. Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, On K1A 0A2 Dear Minister Garneau: We write you on behalf [...]
BTS Website Launch & Social
Join us for the launch of our new website and connect with members of the network. The evening will feature a performance from musician Erick Carillo and insights from Festivales [...]
Updates from BTS Partners
Highlands Committee of Small Farmers (CCDA) Our friends at the CCDA continue their incredible work of community organizing in response to the many challenges faced. The end of 2020 brought [...]
Conviction of Hudbay’s ex-security chief in Guatemala
Photo: Angelica Choc and German Chub On January 6, 2020 a judge in Puerto Barrios, in Eastern Guatemala accepted the guilty plea of Mynor Padilla for the murder of community [...]
Attack against Julio Gonzalez of the Escobal Mine Resistance
On the morning of Saturday, January 16, Julio Gonzalez was shot by unknown assailants in his home in an assasination attempt. Julio is an extraordinary young man. He was one [...]
Guatemala Update ~ January 2021
Heading into 2021 Guatemala was recuperating from a series of environmental and political storms. The end of the hurricane season wrapped up after a higher than usual amount of rain [...]