Guatemala’s New Civil Conflict: The Case of Ramiro Choc
Ramiro Choc, a Q'eqchi' community leader, has been fighting for indigenous people's land rights in Guatemala's volatile departments of Alta ...
The SEIU: The Fastest Growing Union in the United States
The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) continues to defy the trend of record-low union membership in the United States. After ...
Honduras: Repression Intensifies, Resistance Deepens, and Washington Promotes Recognition of the Pos...
February and March have been especially brutal months in the state-sponsored repression of the popular resistance in Honduras. In just ...
Angels in Guatemala: Confronting a Legacy of Official Terror
Last February, some 18,000 Guatemalans, mostly survivors or relatives of victims of the state-sponsored terror of the 1970s and 1980s, ...
Electrifying Guatemala: Clean Energy and Development
On April 20, 2007, the communities of Ixcán, the northern region of Guatemala's department of El Quiché, voted overwhelmingly to ...
Nickel for Your Life: Q’eqchi’ Communities Take On Mining Companies in Guatemala
On Sunday, September 27, a violent conflict broke out in El Estor, a municipality near Guatemala's Pacific coast, between members ...
Guatemala: A Traditional Community Fights for Its Land
The members of Centro Campesino, a cooperative in Guatemala's Petén region, are fighting to recover their land. Their displacement, their ...
From Colombia to Guatemala: Carnival Takes Back the Streets
For centuries, carnivals throughout Latin America have given revelers the chance to enjoy a brief suspension of a typically rigid ...
Plan Mexico and Central American Migration
Crossing the Guatemala-Mexico border region is perhaps the most dangerous leg of undocumented Central Americans' long journey to the United ...
What’s Driving El Salvador’s Left Turn?
The leftist FMLN party is the current favorite to win El Salvador's March 2009 presidential elections. Besides the economic downturn, ...