Chixoy Dam/Rio Negro Massacres Archives
Beginning in 1994, and continuing today in a number of ways, Rights Action has funded and been involved in work - led by Mayan Achi survivors of massacres and genocide - to hold the Guatemalan government, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank accountable for the massacres and killings and violent evictions, dispossession, poverty and despair caused by the 1975-1985 Chixoy dam hydro-electric dam project.
We recommend also checking out The Rio Negro Project, a project, and website, by Nathan Einbinder
2000 May 06 - Chixoy Dam Reparations Campaign Introduction
2000 June 14 - Dominga and Denese, and the story of the village of Rio Negro
2000 August 02 - Excerpts of Wolfensohn, Fischer, and Ladner Conversation about Chixoy Dam Project
2000 September 18 - Worst Case Scenario & M.Pancenza Multi-National Monitor article
2000 September 20 - Chixoy Dam Reparations Campaign Demands
2000 September 28 - Guatemala News and Information Bureau interview with Carlos Chen Osorio
2000 September 28 - Call for a formal UN investigation into Chixoy Dam project
2000 October 07 - On the Record Advocacy Project
2000 October 09 - World Bank & Rights Action correspondences
2000 December 07 - “World Commission on Dams” [WCD] Final Report
2001 March 03 - San Francisco Chronicle Article
2001 March 03 - Princeton University report on World Bank Accountability
2001 March 13 - Rio Negro 19th Anniversary World Bank and IDB Call-In Day
2001 March 15 - Press Release from surviving victims of the Chixoy Dam / Rio Negro massacres
2002 May 13 - Chixoy 20th Anniversary
2002 December 02 - BIG BAD WOLF? Article by M. Pacenza
2003 January 31 - Book Release - The Rio Negro Massacres by Jesus Tecu Osorio
2003 February 17 - Searching for the Lost and Disappeared Children of Guatemala by Aaron Bates
2003 July 03 - Film Release, Discovering Dominga
2004 February 20 - Recap of the Year 2003: Denese Becker, aka Dominga Sic Ruiz
2004 February 22 - Rio Negro Trial - Guatemala: A Tiny Amount of Justice?
2004 July 30 - Chixoy - Back to the Future, article for Rights Action by S. Archer and T. Piper
2004 September 12 - Massacre survivors take control of World Bank and IDB funded Dam
2004 September 14 - Chixoy Dam Massacre Survivors versus Global Impunity
2004 September 20 - Campaign to encourage WB and IDB participation for reparations
2004 September 23 - Guatemala Gov’t Persecution of Chixoy Dam Massacre Survivors
2004 September 27 - Letter to the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
2004 October 18 - Pronouncement of ADIVIMA
2004 December 01 - Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders at Risk, Guatemala & Honduras
2005 January 23 - Conditional release for Carlos Chen
2005 February 03 - Urgent Action - Criminalization of People Who Struggle for Rights and Reparations
2005 March 21 - GUATEMALA UPDATE: Chixoy Dam Reparations Campaign
2006 February 16 - Amnesty International Press Release
2006 September 11 - Xalala Project and Mother Jones Article
2006 November 12 - Action Alert: Xalala Dam Project
2008 June 02 - Bittersweet legal decision in Rio Negro massacre case
2009 January 17 - Landslide Kills Dozens
2009 March 13 - Remembering the Women and Children of Rio Negro, by E. Smith
2012 February 05 - Petition sent to IACHR
2012 March 12 - 30th Anniversary of “Rio Negro” Massacre
2012 March 22 - G. Russell Article & Photo Essay, “Chixoy Dam Massacres and Forced Evictions”
2012 May 10 - Public Letter to Guatemalan Government, WB and IDB
2012 May 13 - “Guatemala’s Land Grab and Massacre”, Al Jazeera short film and article by D. Mercer
2012 July 06 - “The Rio Negro Hearing”, Article by L. Molina
2012 August 01 - A Chixoy Dam “Village Relocation” Dug Up 30 Years Later, by G. Russell
2012 October 23 - Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decision
2012 November 15 - Sign-on Letter to the WB and IDB concerning reparations they owe
2012 December 10 - New Report by Jubilee Debt Campaign (UK)
2013 January 17 - Chixoy Dam Justice and Reparations, Delayed 31 Years and Counting
2013 March 13 - Profiting from Genocide: The World Bank & IDB’s Bloody History in Guatemala
2013 May 7 - Development or Armed Robbery?
2013 October 19 - Letter to the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
2014 February 02 - Washington Post Article, “U.S. Pushes For Outside Oversight Of World Bank”
2014 February 27 - Investing in Repression and Suffering
2014 March 13 - 32nd Anniversary of One of the Four Chixoy Dam/ Rio Negro Massacres
2014 May 29 - Protest in Guatemala City Demanding Reparations Now!
2014 October 17 - Chixoy Dam Reparations To Be Paid Finally, ... Maybe!
2022 October 14 - Chixoy dam reparations in Guatemala 40 years and still unpaid; COCAHICH communique