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Guatemala’s Praised Attorney General To Step Down Under Controversy
Guatemala's Constitutional Court - which vacated the genocide verdict against Josu00e9 Efrau00edn Ru00edos Montt last May -has now ruled that Guatemala's highly respected prosecutor general, Claudia Paz y Paz, …
Fashion Faux Pas? Free Trade and Sweatshop Labor in Guatemala
Free-trade agreements have not delivered promised protections to workers, as the case of Guatemalan sweatshop labor illustrates.
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On Fred Korematsu Day: From Evacuation to Deportation on the Anniversary of Japanese-American Internment
What have we learned since the internment of Japanese-Americans in desert concentration camps and converted race tracks?
Haven’t We Done Enough to Efraín Ríos Montt?
Isn't it enough that this man has been dragged through the mud and made to sit through weeks of testimony and hear the tedious details of sadistic group killing?
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The End of Impunity? Indigenous Guatemalans Bring Canadian Mining Company to Court
For the first time, a Canadian mining company will appear in a Canadian court for actions committed overseas.
Latin America’s Anti-Intervention Bloc
In Latin America, opposition to military intervention in Syria reflects the wariness of a region long beset with U.S. interventions of its own.
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Secrets Result in Abuse of Power: The New Era Is Becoming One of Transparency
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: Transparency is the cure for a long off-kilter US foreign policy.
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Global Harms Need a Global Remedy: Small but Meaningful Victory against Hudbay Minerals
After human rights violations were perpetrated by a Canadian mining company against a Guatemalan village, the village fought back in court.
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Guatemala’s “Femicide” Courts Hold Out New Hope for Justice
The first of many trails on femicide and other violent crimes against women was held in Guatemala, one of the most violent countries in the world.
This American Life Whitewashes US Crimes in Central America, Wins Peabody Award
One would be hard-pressed to encounter another contemporary mainstream account of that period so thoroughly sanitized of Washington's involvement in crimes against humanity.