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Just two months into the International Year of Indigenous Languages, Maya Ch'orti' linguist Saturnino Ramírez Interiano was assassinated in Chiquimula, Guatemala on February 13, 2019.   He was an linguist, educator, and active proponent of the history and culture of the Indigenous Ch’orti’ Peoples. "He was dedicated to the revitalization of the Ch'orti' language and culture, and always pushed community leaders in the region to maintain this valuable ancestral resource that is part of our identity," shared a colleague.

 

The Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim are members of the Q’anjob’al Maya of Guatemala living in diaspora in Nebraska. After years of living in Nebraska, the traditional ancestral government of the Q’anjob’al, which also includes the Akateko, Chuj, and Popti Maya Peoples, has developed a bilateral relationship with the American Indian Omaha Nation.

Photo:  Human rights defenders from the Santa Eulalia & Santa Cruz Barillias areas of Huehuetenango, Guatemala gather together while celebrating the acquittal of Baltazar and 5 other rights defenders on July 31st, 2018.  Each person in the photo had been previously charged for crimes that of which they were later found innocent.  By Lisa Maya Knauer.

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Photo:  Human rights defenders from the Santa Eulalia & Santa Cruz Barillias areas of Huehuetenango, Guatemala gather together while celebrating the acquittal of Baltazar and 5 other rights defenders on July 31st, 2018.  Each person in the photo had been previously charged for crimes that of which they were later found innocent.  By Lisa Maya Knauer.

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The case of a Indigenous Guatemalan community radio host criminalized for his work is garnering international attention from a coalition of organizations working on freedom of expression, human rights, and Indigenous Peoples' rights. In September of 2015, Oscar Mejía (Maya K’iche) was detained during a raid at community radio station in Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala.  Radio Swan Tinamit, property of the community, promotes the u

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