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Date: June 10, 2013

 

Date: June 7, 2013

After spending over two months in prison under charges of terrorism, Rubén Herrera, community leader and outspoken activist against the Hydro Santa Cruz dam in Barillas, Huehuetenango, was released on Thursday May 30th due to

Date: May 28, 2013

For over 600 years, they’ve denied us our voice. Today, we will vindicate our claims.

Date: May 27, 2013

This past weekend, on May 25th, more than 25 community radio station volunteers from Cultural Survival’s radio network across Guatemala gathered for a workshop in the Mujb’ab’l Yol training center in San Mateo, Quetzaltenango.

Date: May 22, 2013

On Monday, May 20, 2013, Anselmo Xunic (Kaqchikel Maya), Guatemala Community Radio Program Manager for Cultural Survival and longtime Indigenous community radio activist, meet with James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of

Date: May 21, 2013

On Monday, May 20, just ten days after the historic conviction of ex-dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against

Date: May 16, 2013
Date: May 10, 2013

 

Date: May 9, 2013

On the anniversary of the death of Andres Fransisco Miguel, community leader of Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, the people of Huehuetenango and neigboring areas in Guatemala came together in protest May 1st.

Date: May 2, 2013

It has been two weeks since the passing of community radio founder and social and environmental activist,

Date: April 19, 2013
On April 19, Judge Jassmin Barrios declared that the hearing in the trial charging Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide will be temporarily suspended while the Constitutional Court addresses the annulment of the trial by Judge Patricia Flores. Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz called the ruling illegal, and in a statement to the press, Ramon Cadena of the International Commission of Jurists has called for the Court to remove Judge Flores for her decision.
Date: April 17, 2013
Date: April 15, 2013
Date: April 10, 2013

Another community leader from Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango has been captured by the Police and incarcerated in Guatemala City as a result of his outspoken opposition to the Spanish company Hidro Santa Cruz’s construction of a hydr

Date: April 10, 2013

Date: April 10, 2013
Date: March 25, 2013
“For over 600 years, they’ve denied us our voice. Today, we will vindicate our claims. Today, we bring a tiny grain of sand to this process,” Alma Temaj told me on March 15, 2013 in the lobby of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC. It was an hour before the hearing on the Situation of the Right to Freedom of Expression of the Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala.
Date: March 21, 2013
Date: March 13, 2013

March 9-10, the Cultural Survival team completed our final of a series of exchanges between 12 community radio stations here in G

Date: February 27, 2013

On February 22, 2013, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Cultural Survival and local community radio association Mujb'ab'l yol held a forum aimed at spreading the word regarding the role of community radio in the

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