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Guatemala: SalvaVidas Purified Water Union Suffers Threats and Injustice

Recently, SalvaVidas employees decided to organize a union in the hope of improving their working conditions. Immediately after finding out...

Guatemala: The Hope for an Endless Mine

Argued by critics as the next wave of land theft and imperialism, foreign controlled mining activity in Guatemala has increased...

Guatemala: Forced Disappearance and the Search for Justice in El Jute

We are fighting so that our kids won’t ever have to know the pain of what we lived through...

Goldcorp Inc. & The Danger of Democracy

In unison, hundreds of Mayan Mam community leaders raised their hands in the Gimnasio Municipal (municipal gym) of San Miguel...

Guatemala: Five Sentenced to 780 Years for Río Negro Massacre

After three years of bureaucratic suspension and six months of hearings, five ex-civil patrollers were sentenced to 780 years in...

Guatemala: Ambush-Protest at Mejia Victores’ Home

Revealed in May 1999, a declassified document deemed the Military Diary describes a number of human rights violations directly ordered...

Guatemala: Río Negro Survivors Identify Executioners

A landmark trial began in Baja Verapaz last December when a local judge announced the continuation of a trial charging...

Bullets and Bananas: The Violence of Free Trade in Guatemala

Less than 24 hours after President Bush met with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom at the White House on Monday, a...

Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: Canadian Nickel Companies in Guatemala

The human cost of speculation on the financial markets by mining companies is high. This is evidenced by the grave...

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