Foto: Pobladores juntan afuera de la Comisaria de Policia en Totonicapan, Guatemala. (credito: FGER)
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El 12 de Noviembre 2018, dos mujeres comunicadoras Mayas K’iche’s fueron arrestadas en Totonicapán, un departamento con mayoría de población Maya (90%).
Photo: Community members gather outside of police station in Totonicapan, Guatemala. Credit: FGER
On November 12, 2018, two Maya K’iche’ women communicators were arrested in Totonicapan, Guatemala, a department in which the vast majority of the population is Indigenous K’iche’ Maya.
My name is Ali Gonzalez from the Indigenous Boruca community in the south of Costa Rica. I am a one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows. I had the pleasant experience of participating in the Second Central America Community Radio Network Meeting held in Panajachel, Guatemala.
The Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim are members of the Q’anjob’al Maya of Guatemala living in diaspora in Nebraska. After years of living in Nebraska, the traditional ancestral government of the Q’anjob’al, which also includes the Akateko, Chuj, and Popti Maya Peoples, has developed a bilateral relationship with the American Indian Omaha Nation.
The case of a Indigenous Guatemalan community radio host criminalized for his work is garnering international attention from a coalition of organizations working on freedom of expression, human rights, and Indigenous Peoples' rights. In September of 2015, Oscar Mejía (Maya K’iche) was detained during a raid at community radio station in Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala. Radio Swan Tinamit, property of the community, promotes the u
ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES, PRESENTAN AMICUS CURIAE, POR LA VIOLACIÓN DEL DEBIDO PROCESO, EN EL EJERCICIO DE LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN DEL COMUNICADOR INDÍGENA OSCAR MEJIA
Photo: CODECA members march to Guatemala City from their communities to march on June 12, 2018. By @GtCodeca on Twitter.
In the past weeks, three human rights defenders from the Campesino Development Committee have been killed, totaling seven fatal attacks on human rights defenders in Guatemala over the past four weeks.
Claudia Patricia Gómez González fue asesinada a tiros por la patrulla fronteriza después de cruzar la frontera en Laredo, Texas, el 23 de mayo de 2018. El agente de la patrulla fronteriza que disparó e hirió fatalmente a Gómez González permanece en licencia administrativa.
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