Moises Morales, president of the Asociacion El Amanecer, says farmlands currently used for growing food crops are being converted to grow sugar for biofuels and export. Photo by Juan Manuel ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Thousands of indigenous farmers have finished an eight-day march to Guatemala’s capital to protest government-backed land seizures by large landowners. A government spokesman ...
POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA—Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 ...
To Guatemala’s backlands, torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond ...
An international court has determined that Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by allowing a nickel mine on tribal land almost 20 years ago. The verdict coincides with the United Nations climate ...
Challenges to good governance in Latin America are historically linked to inequitable land distribution, cumbersome land tenure processes and conflicting land-use priorities. The inability of ...
Several delegates from the Redlands Sister Cities Association left early this evening for Guatemala, where they hope to establish their next Spanish-speaking sister city site. It’s welcome news to ...
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