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Dec 14, 2009
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US Embassy has learned that supporters of the fiscal reform proposal plan to block roads on the morning of Tuesday, December 15, 2009, in various locations in Guatemala.
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Apr 26, 2010
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The killing never stops in Guatemala. More than a decade after the 1996 Peace Accords were signed, which ended 36 years of civil war, homicide rates rival those during the war years. Progress on all fronts seems minimal at best; economic and social gaps between the wealthy and the poor are among the world’s worst.
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Dec 9, 2010
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GHRC has just returned from a unique and powerful delegation to Guatemala. The focus this time was on migration: its causes and its impact on Mayan villages in Quetzaltenango. In this extraordinary experience, we travelled with a group of US-Americans from Arlington, Virginia to the very villages that their Guatemalan neighbors in Virginia were forced to leave behind. It was a trip that drove home the reality of our interconnectedness.
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Feb 6, 2011
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Estarán presentes el Secretario Adjunto de la Oficina de Asuntos Narcóticos Internacionales y Aplicación de la Ley, William R. Brownfield, y la Subsecretaria Adjunta del Departamento de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, Roberta Jacobson, ambos de visita en Guatemala, y el Embajador de los Estados Unidos, Stephen McFarland.
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Apr 8, 2011
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Confidential internal memos from Chiquita Brands International reveal that the banana giant benefited from its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, contradicting the company's 2007 plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, which claimed that the company had never received "any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the payments." Chiquita had characterized the payments as "extortion."
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May 4, 2011
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The latest round of cables sent by the US Embassy in Guatemala to the State Department was released by Wikileaks on 28 April 2011. The report discusses the issue of human trafficking, the Guatemalan government’s past and future strategies to combat it, and the State Department’s own plans and opinions.
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May 10, 2011
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General Otto Perez Molina is arriving soon in Washington D.C to seek support for his bid to the Presidency in the September elections in Guatemala. To our outrage, he has been granted a visa and will be welcomed in a number of government offices.
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May 17, 2011
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5/17/2011
Source: GHRC
A group of seventy committed, determined, and angry supporters of
Guatemalan human rights gathered ...
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Jun 2, 2011
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Please act on behalf of the Maya Qeqchi communities of Panzos (department of Alta Verapaz, eastern Guatemala) and call the US State Department to demand that the US stop backing biofuel expansion in Central America and revoke visas for businessmen implicated in violence.
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Jun 21, 2011
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A continuación les presentamos una transcripción en inglés del informe especial para la prensa ofrecido hoy en el Departamento de Estado con el Secretario Adjunto de Estado para Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, Arturo Valenzuela, y el Secretario Adjunto Asuntos Antinarcóticos, William R. Brownfield. Ambos dieron declaraciones a los periodistas y respondieron preguntas sobre el próximo viaje de la Secretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Guatemala y Jamaica, este 22 y 23 de junio.
Dec 14, 2009 0US Embassy has learned that supporters of the fiscal reform proposal plan to block roads on the morning of Tuesday, December 15, 2009, in various locations in Guatemala.
Apr 8, 2011 0Confidential internal memos from Chiquita Brands International reveal that the banana giant benefited from its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, contradicting the company's 2007 plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, which claimed that the company had never received "any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the payments." Chiquita had characterized the payments as "extortion."
May 4, 2011 0The latest round of cables sent by the US Embassy in Guatemala to the State Department was released by Wikileaks on 28 April 2011. The report discusses the issue of human trafficking, the Guatemalan government’s past and future strategies to combat it, and the State Department’s own plans and opinions.
May 10, 2011 1General Otto Perez Molina is arriving soon in Washington D.C to seek support for his bid to the Presidency in the September elections in Guatemala. To our outrage, he has been granted a visa and will be welcomed in a number of government offices.