Past events
Cooperant Program 2022
2022 BTS Cooperant Program The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) is recruiting a team of cooperants to serve in Guatemala for 3-12 months to support the work of our Guatemalan partners. As a BTS Cooperant, you will support Guatemalan organizations engaged in the struggle for defense [...]
Human rights abuses, fabricated charges, stolen land and “development”
Fourth in a series by Jim Hodgson Read the third post, here. Granada Uno hearing reports. Photo Credits: CCDA Guatemala’s 1996 peace accords ended the civil war, but did not restore land to people displaced by conflict, or result in a plan for agrarian reform, or create a system for [...]
Communiqué de presse, Cas du journal militaire le 19 mai
Communiqué de presse français Comunicado de prensa en español COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE - le 19 mai 2022 CAS DU JOURNAL MILITAIRE Après avoir été reportée à deux reprises, le jeudi 19 mai, l'audience pour la première déclaration de Toribio Acevedo Ramírez, [...]
Military Diary Case – Press Release May 19th, 2022
English Press Release Spanish Press Release PRESS RELEASE | MAY 19th, 2022 MILITARY DIARY CASE After being rescheduled twice, on Thursday, May 19, the first hearing of Toribio Acevedo Ramirez, who had been a fugitive since May 2021, accused [...]
Popular education, social history: among the keys to defending Maya land
Third in a series by Jim HodgsonRead the second post here Many supporters of Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking The Silence Network (BTS) and other solidarity groups across Canada know Leocadio Juracán and the organization he has been part of since 1989: the Comité Campesino del Altiplano – CCDA (Highlands Committee of Small [...]
Where development and genocide go hand in bloody hand
Seven lay catechists and three priests murdered four decades ago in Quiché were beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on April 21, 2021. Among them was Fr. Juan Alonso (right), a Spanish missionary priest who served the parish in Lancetillo. Second in a series by Jim Hodgson Read [...]
Remembering Wilf Bean
Wilf (second from right) and BTS members and supporters on the 2016 Boat Cruise Dear BTS community, We write to you with full but heavy hearts as we share the news that on June 15th Wilf Bean, longtime BTS member and life partner of BTS founder Kathryn Anderson, passed on. [...]