RSS• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute • Why Guatemala? • Brazil phase is rough • Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, on this try, do not seem to perceive that it is a changed world in terms of inter-American relations and that traditional concepts of pan-Americanism [...]
Archive for the ‘Guatemala’ Category
March 5th, 2010 - 3:39 pm § in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Front Page, Guatemala, Honduras, OAS
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Does Latin America
November 2nd, 2009 - 1:29 pm § in Front Page, Guatemala
While His Citizens Suffer, Guatemalan President Colom’s Administration Spawns Setbacks
- The latest bizarre killing in the Rosenberg case – Mark Monson, an assistant to the judge presiding over the video recorded murder case – was shot and killed on Friday, representing one more crime without punishment which routinely takes place in today’s Guatemala. - Violence, abject[...]
Guatemala Far from out of the Woods: Sentencing of an Ex-Paramilitary Officer a Transformative Step for the Country?
On August 31, 2009, a Guatemalan court in the mountain town of Chimaltenango convicted Felipe Cusanero, a former paramilitary officer in the country’s 36-year-long civil war. His crime was the forced disappearance of six indigenous villagers between 1982 and 1984. In many regards, the convic[...]
August 18th, 2009 - 9:33 am § in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Front Page, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Small Arms in Latin America in the Aftermath of the NACLA Study
According to the World Health Organization, gun-related fatalities are the leading cause of death among Latin Americans between ages 15 and 44. Overall, gunshot wounds kill between 73,000 and 90,000 people annually in Latin America, demonstrating that the region is inundated with fire-arms. In fact,[...]
The Guatemalan Poor and its Garbage Dump Education System
Guatemala City’s Ugly Realities The Guatemala City garbage dump, situated in a ravine, occupies 40 acres of land in the nation’s capital. Guatemala is the most populated nation in Central America, with more than 13 million residents. This landfill, one of the largest and most toxic in Cent[...]
July 2nd, 2009 - 7:51 am § in Front Page, Guatemala
Guatemalan Democracy: Hanging on By its Fingernails
In a country where an average of 17 murders are committed each day and 98 percent of criminal cases remain unsolved, the May 10, 2009 assassination of prominent Guatemalan lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, could easily have been dismissed along with thousands of other ill-handled and heavily manipulated po[...]
Guatemala’s Neglected Story: Continued Disregard for Indigenous Autonomy
•Indigenous peoples are still violently suppressed when they voice any opposition to foreign multi-national investment operations •Gaining strength, the country’s Indigenous movement is a much needed tool for securing equal rights •The Guatemalan indigenous movement would be well advised to [...]
May 21st, 2009 - 3:05 pm § in Guatemala, In the News
Guatemala murder scandal could threaten the presidency
May 20, 2009 By Ezra Fieser and Sara Miller Llana The Christian Science Monitor Guatemala City and Mexico City – The scandal surrounding accusations that Guatemala’s president orchestrated the murder of a prominent lawyer is intensifying – deepening divisions in a country still recover[...]
Guatemala rejects allegations of role in lawyer’s death
May 12, 2009 By Arthur Brice and Saeed Ahmed CNN Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has dismissed an allegation that he was behind the death of a lawyer who left a video blaming the president if anything happened to him. A video with Rodrigo Rosenberg appears on YouTube in which he accuses Guatemala&[...]
Combating Impunity, Violence, and Crime in President Colom’s Guatemala
- Guatemala’s fatal brew of corruption, impunity, violence and lawlessness - Colom, after excessive stonewalling, revs himself up and announces anti-impunity commission, the declassification of military archives, and an elite anti-narcotics force to be trained by U.S. personnel - The administratio[...]