Guatemala shut down by peaceful democracy defenders

From bad to worse - Repression against people protesting electoral coup d’etat

Propaganda Film Attacks NGOs, Catholic Church and Land Defenders in Guatemala, Insinuating Links to Drug Trafficking Cartels, By Grahame Russell, Rights Action

Not Just the Immigration System is Broken

Rights Action remembers and honors Adolfo Ich Chaman, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ environmental, territorial, human rights defender, killed September 27, 2009, by private security guards working in the mining industry.

It is hard to overstate the complicity of this U.S. and Canadian-led “international community”, maintaining mutually beneficial economic, political and military relations with these types of “democratic allie” governments, ignoring or even lying about how repressive, exploitative and corrupt they are.

Kickstarter fund-raising campaign for new podcast series by Michael Fox, in co-production with NACLA / The Real News

Lawyer Claudia Gonzalez illegally imprisoned
Corruption of entire Guatemalan legal & political system in plain sight

Democracy in Guatemala?
Commentary by Brisna Caxaj-Rowe, a survivor of Guatemalan repression