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As a Mexico Style "Drug War" is launched in Central America, US and US Allied Security Forces are increasing participating in police actions in Central America. On February 7, Oliver Garza, a high level State Department Security Advisor took up residence in the US embassy in Honduras. Garza comes to Honduras from the State Department agency most directly in charge of US security operations in Colombia and Mexico, and in 2002 his name was associated with a scandal in which 3,000 AK-47's were shipped from the Nicaraguan National Police to Colombian AUC paramilitaries. -
The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press. -
Featuring 147 tri-tone photographs, Our Culture Is Our Resistance is a cloth-bound, hardcover book that includes a preface by Guatemalan Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum; short essays by Francisco Goldman, Susanne Jonas, and Ricardo Falla; and prose and poetry by Eduardo Galeano, Julia Esquivel, Francisco Morales Santos, Humberto Ak’abal, and Heather Dean. In addition, the book includes testimonies and reflections by Guatemalan community members and survivors, as well as statements by photographer Sebastião Salgado, Eduardo Galeano, and William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International U.S.A. - A massive fire has swept through a jail in Honduras, killing at least 300 prisoners, officials say. Many victims were burned or suffocated to death in their cells at the jail in Comayagua, in central Honduras. The officials say at least 300 are confirmed dead, but a further 56 inmates, out of the 853 in the prison, are missing and presumed dead
- Surrounded by his supporters, Otto Pérez Molina was sworn in on Saturday as Guatemala’s new president, becoming the first former military man hold the post since the 1996 Peace Accords.
- Moments after Judge Carol Patricia Flores Blanco announced that retired General José Efraín Rios Montt had a case to answer for genocide and crimes against humanity, firecrackers and cheers could be heard.
- Ramiro Choc is a Q'eqchi' peasant leader from northeastern Guatemala. With courage, dynamic organizing skills and commitment to social and environmental justice he has been a leader in numerous successful grassroots struggles.
- Contact your Representative and ask to them to attend GHRC’s Congressional Briefing: Threats to Justice and a Return to Military Rule in Guatemala.
- I just wanted to send a friendly reminder about the solidarity delegation to to visit indigenous farming communities in Guatemala and accompany them in their struggle for land reform. The delegation will be happening from March 3-11, so we need to finish receiving applications ASAP so we can make final plans and people can get their plane tickets. (Airfare is currently actually cheaper than when I got my tickets, and currently looks like about $570 round trip, though you might find even cheaper if you are more clever than I).
- The U.S. Congress has recently opened the door to consideration of an end to restrictions on direct military funding to Guatemala in FY2013. Guatemala, however, currently faces urgent threats to democratic civilian governance, including a resurgence of military control and entrenched clandestine crime structures in all levels of government. Judiciary independence and the rule of law, too, remain in constant peril.
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