GHRC – El Quetzal (Winter 2025)

The Winter 2025 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. In it, they explore the implications of a co-opted justice system and the nece…

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Podcast: Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis

Guatemala’s former minister of governance resigns and leaves the country after the public learns of the escape from prison of twenty Barrio 18 (18th Street) gang members. Gabriel Labrador and Roman…

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GHRC – El Quetzal (Summer 2025)

The Summer 2025 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. It features an interview with Eva Siomara Sosa, a former prosecutor who worked…

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Legal investigation into legitimacy of mining licenses of Montreal-based Central America Nickel in Guatemala

Rights Action has posted a translation of an article by Simon Antonio Ramon, published in Prensa Comunitaria. The piece is followed by a Rights Action commentary looking at the Corrupt government o…

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Exile is ‘a little bit less than death’ for lawyer forced to flee Guatemala

Haroon Siddique wrote in The Guardian on Virginia Laparra’s struggle for justice and her receiving of the Sir Henry Brooke award. A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor forced into exile after bei…

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The Genocide Trial and the Tightrope

José Luis Sanz wrote a two-piece chronicle in El Faro, published in Spanish in 2014, on CICIG, Claudia Paz y Paz, the genocide trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, and exile. The chronicle has been translat…

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Mayans in Guatemala call on multinational companies to stay away

Una Kelly writes on the RTÉ website about the struggle of Indigenous Q’eqchi Maya in their opposition to multi-national resource extraction in eastern Guatemala. Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala have…

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Arévalo’s “Democratic Spring” Polls Below the Nicaraguan Dictatorship

El Faro has presented a short video, scripted by Yuliana Ramazzini and Roman Gressier, on Bernardo Arévalo’s inability to curb criminalisation by the Attorney General and how his communications stu…

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Claudia Paz y Paz: “What Consuelo Porras seeks in Guatemala is impunity in all cases”

Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro on the continuing corruption of the Guatemala judicial system through an interview with former Attorney General, Claudia Paz y Paz, internationally known for bri…

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