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Guatemala: News & Updates

Guatemala had the longest and bloodiest civil war in Central American history: 36 years (1960-96). The US-backed military was responsible for a genocide (“scorched earth policy”) that wiped out 200,000 mostly Maya indigenous civilians.  War criminals are still being tried in the courts.

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 7/26/2015
July 26, 2015
unjust detention of Bernardo Ermitaño López Reyes, member of the Council of Mayan People and community leader with high profile in the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Mexico, 5/2/2015
May 2, 2015
assassination of environmental human rights defender Telésforo Odilio Pivaral González, active in the resistance against the El Escobal silver mining project in San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa
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RRN Case Update
RRN Case Update: Guatemala, 05/02/2015
May 2, 2015
Founder and Chairman of Canadian Silver Mining Company Summoned to Court over Human Rights Abuses

RRN LETTER - to the president and attorney general of Guatemala

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 4/14/2015
April 14, 2015
unjust detention of environmental rights defenders Sotero Adalberto Villatoro, Francisco Juan Pedro and Arturo Pablo Juan of Santa Cruz Barillas municipality in Huehuetenango Department.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 3/15/2015
March 15, 2015
killing of two journalists, Danilo Zapón López and Federico Salazar, and the wounding of a third, Marvin Israel Túnchez, in Mazatenango in Suchitepéquez Department.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 11/14/2014
November 14, 2014
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 10/25/2014
October 25, 2014
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 5/24/2014
May 24, 2014
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 4/13/2014
April 13, 2014
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 12/24/2013
December 24, 2013
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