Guatemala
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Date: June 10, 2013
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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 |
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Date: May 28, 2013
For over 600 years, they’ve denied us our voice. Today, we will vindicate our claims. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Date: May 16, 2013
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Date: May 10, 2013
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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. |
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Date: May 2, 2013
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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. |
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Date: April 17, 2013
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Date: April 15, 2013
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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 |
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Date: April 10, 2013
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Date: April 10, 2013
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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. |
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Date: March 21, 2013
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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 |
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Date: February 27, 2013
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