A la Resistencia Pacífica de Mataquescuintla, Jalapa En el marco del 9a aniversario de la consulta municipal de Mataquescuintla, las organizaciones firmantes deseamos expresar nuestras felicitaciones a la lucha digna de la Resistencia Pacífica del pueblo de Mataquescuintla. Sabemos que ustedes están enfrentando un monstruo del modelo extractivista - el [...]
We were disappointed to learn that the federal budget announced on March 22 makes no mention of a Human Rights Ombudsperson for the extractive sector. Regardless, we will continue to push for the Liberal government to make good on its promise to establish an effective Ombudsperson's office! Read the response [...]
Guatemala City, January 5, 2015 by Jackie McVicar The retrial of former military president Efrain Rios Montt and former head of military intelligence, Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, for genocide and war crimes opened this morning briefly before being suspended. The case file hadn't been sent to the 3 judges who would [...]
December 16, 2013 The Honourable John Baird Minister of Foreign Affairs Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A Dear Minister Baird, We are writing to urge the Canadian government to take a stance on the ongoing case against Mr José Efraín Rios Montt, [...]
Naty Atz Sunuc, an Indigenous woman and KAIROS partner from Guatemala, to participate in the BC National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Vancouver September 6, 2013 by KAIROS KAIROS is facilitating the participation of Naty Atz Sunuc, a partner from Guatemala, as an international witness at [...]
¿QUIÉN ES RÍOS MONTT? http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/fallo-militares-juicio_0_853714913.html Nacido el 16 de junio de 1926 en Huehuetenango, departamento fronterizo con México, ingresó a los 18 años al Ejército como policía militar, y a los 20 a la Escuela Politécnica para iniciar su carrera de oficial, hasta llegar a general. Incursionó en política en [...]
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/fallo-militares-juicio_0_853714913.html El juez Primero B de Mayor Riesgo, Miguel Ángel Gálvez, resolvió enviar a jucio a los militares retirados José Efraín Ríos Montt y José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, por los delitos de genocidio y contra deberes de la humanidad, tras considerar que existen pruebas suficientes de su implicación en las [...]
Today Guatemalan society is witness to an historic event, for the first time in our country, a judge has ordered the opening of a trial for the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ordered the opening of the public oral debate that allows the court [...]
In a few days, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court will decide whether or not to give amnesty to genocidal general Rios Montt. If they do, the serious crimes that the Guatemalan army committed in 1982 and 1983, when Rios Montt was (de-facto) President of the Republic and Minister of Defense, will [...]
