Other War Crimes Trials / Work to End Corruption and Impunity
Similar to the genocide trial against US-backed General Efrain Rios Montt, other war crimes trials have been working their way through the Guatemala courts, confronting endemic racism and repression, impunity and corruption.
In this archive, articles and reports about these ‘other war crimes’ trials, and about work to end systemic corruption and impunity.
2002 October 08 - “Tale of Two Sisters”, Article about Myrna Mack case
2005 July 28 - “Guatemalan Government’s Apology Leaves Unanswered Questions”, by T. Willard
2010 January 08 - Systemic Injustice and Impunity, part 1
2010 January 15 - Systemic Injustice and Impunity, part 2
2010 June 09 - Urgent Action From Jennifer Harbury: Bamaca Case in Guatemala
2010 August 15 - “Cracks in the Wall of Impunity & Corruption”, By A. Bird
2011 January 06 - “Guatemala Under Siege - Two Steps Backwards”, Article by A. Bird
2011 July 27 - “Guatemalan Tries Soldiers on Massacre Charges”, Aljazeera Article
2011 July 29 - “Guatemalan War Rape Survivors: ‘We have no voice’”, The Guardian Article O. de Pablo
2011 August 24 - No More Politics & Business as Usual with War Criminals in Guatemala (or Anywhere)
2011 September 04 - “Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Facing Extradition”, The Canadian Press Article
2012 March 09 - Mass grave exhumations continue … Genocide trials continue …
2012 March 18 - Truth, Memory & Justice for Plan de Sanchez Massacre Victims
2012 April 09 - “On the Problem of Femicide”, LA Review of Books Article by Aaron Shulman
2013 January 04 - “Guatemala’s ‘Little Schools of the Americas’”, Article by D. Paley
2013 May 10 - Rape During Genocides Against Mayan Peoples in Guatemala
2015 September 05 - “A New Guatemala Slowly Emerges”, Boston Globe by S. Kinzer
2016 November 18 - “Dos Erres” Trial in Guatemala
2017 September 14 - “Guatemala’s Democratic Crisis Point”, NYT Article by A. Isaacs
2019 May 10 - Maya Achi women, Sexual violence war crimes trial in Guatemala
2019 August 30 - “Guatemala in grip of ‘mafia coalition;’”, Associated Press Article
2019 December 17 - Guatemalan sexual violence war crimes trial comes to a Boston Court
2021 July 27 - “Guatemala's Top Anti-Corruption Attorney Flees Country”, El Faro English Article
2022 January 10 - “A Peace Resembling War” in Guatemala: Commentary by G.Russell
2022 November 17 - “Judicial gunshot” El Faro News Editorial by R. Gressier and J.L. Sanz
2023 May 9 - “A Hard, Normal Day in Guatemala, Under Boot of the Pacto de Corruptos”, by G Russell
2023 June 22 - “Jose Ruben Zamora, Enemy Number One”, Prensa Comunitaria Article by H. Silva