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Feb 9, 2010
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Red-shirted mariachis stroll singing and strumming into the dusty yard of a whitewashed villa where roosters crow the dawn. The lyrics of their serenade compare a maiden's beauty to the shine of the moon, as homemade fireworks explode in the lightening sky.
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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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Feb 5, 2012
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A letter sent to the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), along with a Petition concerning the illegal forced evictions, massacres and other human rights violations of 32 Mayan communities (over 3000 people) caused by the Chixoy Hydro-electric Dam, a "development" project of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank in partnership with successive military regimes (1975-1985)
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May 10, 2012
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Various organizations filed an appeal to the IACHR (Inter-American Human Commission on Human Rights) concerning the responsibilities of the WB (World Bank) and the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) for harms and destruction, including illegal evictions and massacres in indigenous Mayan communities caused by the Chixoy Dam project in Guatemala (1975-1985) funded by the WB and IDB.
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May 12, 2012
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Canadian mining company Radius Gold Inc., accompanied by over 300 Guatemala anti-riot troops, tried to illegally enter rural Guatemalan communities, threatening the local villagers. Tensions are high.
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May 21, 2012
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"Once Again, Mining" is a 7 minute film, shot during and after the May 8, 2012, attempt, by the gold and silver mining company EXMINGUA (owned by Radius Gold Inc. of Canada) to enter with a convoy of some 25-30 mining company trucks full of equipment, accompanied by some 25-30 trucks of heavily armed National Police, at 1:00am, in the morning, so as to avoid the peacefully protesting villagers of the two affected municipalities - San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayumpac -, who were never consulted about this mining business and who never gave legal permission for a mine to operate in their lands.
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Jun 4, 2012
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Rights Action recommends listening to a very moving 59 minute NPR radio report "What Happened At Dos Erres?" (May 25, 2012) that describes a particular massacre in Guatemala - the Dos Erres [Dos-Errez] massacre of some 200 people in 1982; the report describes courageous efforts in Guatemala, since the mid-1990s, to seek truth and justice for this massacre.
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Jun 11, 2012
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Hudbay did not "create better futures for communities" in Guatemala. Rather, Hudbay left a legacy of damage, injury, death and on-going suffering in Guatemala that have not been addressed or remedied.
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Sep 23, 2012
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General Otto Perez Molina, now the President of Guatemala, will be in New York City on Monday the 24 of September 2012. He plans to attend a conference at the United Nations, where he will address security issues as well as his new "anti-hunger" campaign. President Bill Clinton will give Perez Molina special recognition at the event.
Feb 9, 2010 0Red-shirted mariachis stroll singing and strumming into the dusty yard of a whitewashed villa where roosters crow the dawn. The lyrics of their serenade compare a maiden's beauty to the shine of the moon, as homemade fireworks explode in the lightening sky.