Women and the agrarian resistance in Guatemala By: Mélisande Séguin, Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) Cooperant CCDA women activists, planning and organizing. Land dispossession as a historical root of the latest wave of evictions Guatemala has one of the most unequal land distribution and titling systems in [...]
Altar honouring the 177 victims of the March 13th, 1982 massacre at Pak’oxom in Rio Negro (photo credit: ADIVIMA) Sabrina Jeria, a cooperant at the Rabinal Community Legal Clinic, shares her reflections following the March 13th commemoration of the Río Negro massacre. On March 13, I accompanied a [...]
Written by María Reyes The Maya Achi Women Survivors waiting to enter the court room on the day the verdict is to be read On January 24, 2022, the High Risk Court "A" presided by Yassmin Barrios, Patricia Bustamante and Gervi Sical, sentenced Benvenuto and Bernardo Ruiz Aquino, [...]
Written by Laura Monday, January 24th 2022, and Thursday, January 27th 2022 Pedrina Lopez de Paz in the foreground, Paulina Ixtapá in the background photographed in the foreground of the courtroom on January, 24th, 2022. Photo Credits: Verdad y Justicia. The court reconvened Monday morning to hear [...]
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Written by Lisa One of the 36 Maya Achi Women Survivors in Court listening to the concluding arguments of the defense on January 19th, 2022. Photo Credit: Lisa Rankin Today the defence presented their conclusions in support of their clients. As they didn’t [...]
Tuesday, January 18 Written by Lisa The day started off with the final witness for the prosecution, the sub-inspector of the Guatemalan National Civil Police who led the capture of Gabriel Cuxum Alvarado in his home in Guatemala City in May 2021. Despite the fact he was using a false [...]
Monday, January 17 Written by Lisa Today was another short day, with only two witnesses. Both are from the forensics department of the Guatemalan National Civil Police and testified on the comparison of the fingerprints of Gabriel Cuxum Alvarado, who was using an assumed name to hide from authorities. Both [...]
Friday, January 14, 2021 Written by Este [Testimonies given on this day were graphic: describing the context, reality, and mentality of not only survivors but perpetrators of genocide.] Photo taken in Rio Negro, on March 13th, 2020 (Photo Credits: Laura Robinson) Day 9 of the trial lasted half [...]
Thursday, January 13th, 2022 Written by María and Lisa Vinicio Lopez Galvez while giving testimony before the court on January 13, 2022. (Photo Credit: Verdad y Justicia.) On the 8th day of trial, the first witness was Vinicio Lopez Galvez who worked for the “Temporary High Level Commission”. He [...]
Written by Lisa and Laura Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 Maya Achi Survivors of Sexual Violence at a Press Confrence on January 12, 2022. Credit: Lisa Today continued with the plaintiffs giving their testimony. Pedrina Lopez de Paz, one of the 5 women out of the 36 whose assaults [...]
