Julian Marcelo Sabuc Xalcut (CCDA) gives an interview about protests in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office. [Find the original video of the interview below] BTS: Good afternoon, could you tell me your name and the organization you represent? Marcelo (CCDA): Good afternoon, I’m Julian Marcelo Sabuc Xalcut, [...]
By Jim Hodgson For someone who thinks of coffee stains as what you get because of a loose lid at Tim’s, the night we joined coffee farmers near Lake Atitlán to unload their truckload of freshly-picked and still very fleshy coffee was novel. The fruit at this stage is like [...]
The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) invites you to attend our 2023 Annual Gathering, Solidarity in a Time of Crisis. We are so pleased that we are now able to reconnect in person with a BTS partner, Jesús Tecú Osorio, founder of the Rabinal Community Legal Clinic and the New Hope [...]
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 [...]
(Photo from BTS partner IMAP, Meso-American Permaculture Institute) The last year has been challenging in many ways. Some things in life can be changed and made better, while others remain out of our control. We can however have an impact on the human right struggles in [...]
Written by Este Guatemala’s dry season is once again coming to an end, making way for the rains that will spring forward another cycle of crops, life, and resistance. As we have reported in previous weeks through updates on the top stories making the news in Guatemala, major concerns swirl [...]
Today, April 13th, 2021, marks the 7th anniversary of the murder of Topacio Reynoso Pacheco. At the age of 16, she was a member of the peaceful resistance against a Canadian-owned silver mine near her home in Mataquescuintla, Guatemala. Topacio was a co-founder of the Mataquescuintla youth movement to resist [...]
