Last year, was filled with many memorable moments, including the launch of the BTS Cooperant Program, speaking tours with Gloria Reyes of the Rabinal Legal Clinic and Mayra Jimenez of Ocho Tijax, the "Land Rights are Human Rights" delegation and so much more! Read all about it in our BTS [...]
November 20, 2019 By Laura Robinson Today we met with the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala with the goal of sharing the stories we had been trusted with during this delegation. After leaving Antigua yesterday, we spent the evening preparing questions in order to ask how the Canadian government was handling [...]
November 18, 2019 By Somadina Muojeke Learning about the Rio Negro massacre which was linked to a hydroelectric project, exploring resistance coffee farms and honouring activist Topacio Reynoso, spending time with communities facing evictions by large plantation owners and communities demanding the right to free, prior and informed consent who [...]
November 17, 2019 By Ahmed Nassrat “My beautiful piece of peace Mataquesquintla will continue to flower when no hero who defends the earth has to die.” Topacio Reynoso It was quite touching to show up at the mural to find a group of youth working to refresh the mural which [...]
November 16, 2019 By Rosie Sylliboy We started our day by marching down a path with our luggage in hand. I imagined that we were loading onto Noah’s ark because it poured rain all night. We were informed that today was going to be a travel day and that most [...]
November 15, 2019 by: Keely Carter Beans, eggs, sausage, tortilla, plantain and chile sauce with a sweet cup of coffee. This is how we have started many of our days and day 6 waking up in Coban was no different. We are fortunate to have a hearty start like that [...]
November 14, 2019 By: Laura Robinson October 12th, 2019 marked 527 years since the discovery of America, however, this year also marked 527 years of Indigenous resistance. Resistance which the Committee of Small Highland Farmers (CCDA) engages in wholeheartedly. The CCDA engages in the struggle for the protection of land, [...]
November 13th, 2019 By: Scott Smith It's 5:15 AM - “time to get up folks” is the voice that echoed through the house. Late into the evening last night, we arrived by boat to Rio Negro. The power was out on our arrival and so we didn't get to get [...]
November 12, 2019 By: Andrea Currie Once again, we awakened to a lovely day in this beautiful country that evokes such a mix of powerful feelings. We are absorbing as best we can, the stories our partners here are telling us about the horrific trauma of massacres, sexual violence and [...]
November 11, 2019 by Lydia Jenkinson We gathered this morning at 6am in the courtyard of our Rabinal hotel. Our water bottles were filled and we all had shoes on suitable for hiking. We knew our itinerary for this day was filled with meaning-filled things but I don't believe we [...]
