GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

WHO WE ARE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Who We Are. Director, Guatemala City Office. Isabel Solis. isolis@ghrc-usa.org. Isabel Solis is a Mayan activist who has been working for over 20 years as a grassroots community organizer. Isabel specializes in communal land rights, indigenous rights, the impacts of international extractive industries, and defense of human FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS: AS THE April 8, 2020. GHRC reporting from Washington and Guatemala. The COVID-19 crisis is hitting Central America’s fragile Northern Triangle–Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador–full force. Though to date relatively few confirmed cases have been reported, a serious food crisis appears to already be underway. MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

WHO WE ARE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Who We Are. Director, Guatemala City Office. Isabel Solis. isolis@ghrc-usa.org. Isabel Solis is a Mayan activist who has been working for over 20 years as a grassroots community organizer. Isabel specializes in communal land rights, indigenous rights, the impacts of international extractive industries, and defense of human FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS: AS THE April 8, 2020. GHRC reporting from Washington and Guatemala. The COVID-19 crisis is hitting Central America’s fragile Northern Triangle–Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador–full force. Though to date relatively few confirmed cases have been reported, a serious food crisis appears to already be underway. MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

WHO WE ARE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Who We Are. Director, Guatemala City Office. Isabel Solis. isolis@ghrc-usa.org. Isabel Solis is a Mayan activist who has been working for over 20 years as a grassroots community organizer. Isabel specializes in communal land rights, indigenous rights, the impacts of international extractive industries, and defense of human NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS: AS THE April 8, 2020. GHRC reporting from Washington and Guatemala. The COVID-19 crisis is hitting Central America’s fragile Northern Triangle–Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador–full force. Though to date relatively few confirmed cases have been reported, a serious food crisis appears to already be underway. DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property.

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan RIO NEGRO MASSACRES « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Rio Negro Massacres. Five massacres occurred in the Rio Negro (“Black River”) communities between 1980 and 1982. The people of Rio Negro (named after the nearby river) had occupied the region since the classic Mayan age and owned 1,440 hectares of land. During the energy crisis of the 1970’s the Guatemalan government looked for

local

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property.

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan RIO NEGRO MASSACRES « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Rio Negro Massacres. Five massacres occurred in the Rio Negro (“Black River”) communities between 1980 and 1982. The people of Rio Negro (named after the nearby river) had occupied the region since the classic Mayan age and owned 1,440 hectares of land. During the energy crisis of the 1970’s the Guatemalan government looked for

local

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan HISTORY AND TIMELINE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION History and Timeline. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) was founded in 1982 amid the turmoil of Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. Founder Sister Alice Zachmann, SSND, first traveled to Guatemala in 1975, and again in 1979, where she was struck by the incredible levels of poverty and discrimination among Guatemala’s

peoples.

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET GANGS Gangs in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on Youth Gangs in Guatemala: There are an estimated 8,000-14,000 gang members in Guatemala. Additionally, the National Civil Police estimate that there are 30,000 GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA VOL 18 NO 4/MARCH … Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Vol 18 No 4/March 10, 2006 Authorities Raid Community Radio Associations (From an article in Cultural Survival) On the morn-ing of March 2, Guatemalan authorities

illegally

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can PROGRESS AGAINST IMPUNITY? GUATEMALA‘S FEMICIDE LAW Guatemala’s Femicide Law 3 Nations, resulted in the rape, torture, and murder of tens of thousands of Guatemalan women and girls. The war

irrevocably damaged

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property.

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan RIO NEGRO MASSACRES « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Rio Negro Massacres. Five massacres occurred in the Rio Negro (“Black River”) communities between 1980 and 1982. The people of Rio Negro (named after the nearby river) had occupied the region since the classic Mayan age and owned 1,440 hectares of land. During the energy crisis of the 1970’s the Guatemalan government looked for

local

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property.

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan RIO NEGRO MASSACRES « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Rio Negro Massacres. Five massacres occurred in the Rio Negro (“Black River”) communities between 1980 and 1982. The people of Rio Negro (named after the nearby river) had occupied the region since the classic Mayan age and owned 1,440 hectares of land. During the energy crisis of the 1970’s the Guatemalan government looked for

local

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

MURDER OF MYRNA MACK « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990. In 1991 Helen Mack pursued THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GHRC/USA HOME

There are an estimated 1.5 million Guatemalans in the United States, many who came out of necessity, risking their lives to seek employment opportunities and send support home to their families. GHRC focuses on the root causes of migration, and the tremendous impact of migration on the economy, family, culture and community of the Guatemalan HISTORY AND TIMELINE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION History and Timeline. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) was founded in 1982 amid the turmoil of Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. Founder Sister Alice Zachmann, SSND, first traveled to Guatemala in 1975, and again in 1979, where she was struck by the incredible levels of poverty and discrimination among Guatemala’s

peoples.

DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET GANGS Gangs in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on Youth Gangs in Guatemala: There are an estimated 8,000-14,000 gang members in Guatemala. Additionally, the National Civil Police estimate that there are 30,000 GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA VOL 18 NO 4/MARCH … Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Vol 18 No 4/March 10, 2006 Authorities Raid Community Radio Associations (From an article in Cultural Survival) On the morn-ing of March 2, Guatemalan authorities

illegally

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can PROGRESS AGAINST IMPUNITY? GUATEMALA‘S FEMICIDE LAW Guatemala’s Femicide Law 3 Nations, resulted in the rape, torture, and murder of tens of thousands of Guatemalan women and girls. The war

irrevocably damaged

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

and Labor Rights

HISTORY AND TIMELINE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION History and Timeline. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) was founded in 1982 amid the turmoil of Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. Founder Sister Alice Zachmann, SSND, first traveled to Guatemala in 1975, and again in 1979, where she was struck by the incredible levels of poverty and discrimination among Guatemala’s

peoples.

WHO WE ARE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Who We Are. Director, Guatemala City Office. Isabel Solis. isolis@ghrc-usa.org. Isabel Solis is a Mayan activist who has been working for over 20 years as a grassroots community organizer. Isabel specializes in communal land rights, indigenous rights, the impacts of international extractive industries, and defense of human NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. SEPUR ZARCO SEXUAL SLAVERY CASE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The Sepur Zarco case is historic for being the first criminal trial that pertains to sexual violence during Guatemala’s armed conflict, as well as the first sexual slavery case heard in a national court. Importantly, it also illustrates the army’s use of rape as a weapon of war and of genocide. ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

HISTORY OF GUATEMALA 1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera. 1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET DRUG Drug Trafficking in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on the Drug Trade in Guatemala: Nearly 400 metric tons of cocaine - 75% of the total amount arriving in the US - passes through Guatemala each year. GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA FACT SHEET GANGS Gangs in Guatemala Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA Fact Sheet Key Facts on Youth Gangs in Guatemala: There are an estimated 8,000-14,000 gang members in Guatemala. Additionally, the National Civil Police estimate that there are 30,000 GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / USA Femicide 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 www.ghrc-usa.org See GHRC’s report entitled “Guatemala’s Femicide Law: Progress Against Impunity,” which can FACT SHEET TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR GUATEMALANS 3321 12th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-4008 Tel: (202) 529-6599 Fax: (202) 526-4611 www.ghrc-usa.org Fact Sheet Guatemalans are in urgent

need of TPS due to

GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

students

FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

town.

ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

death of some

THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

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GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Human Rights Defenders Attend Public Hearing to Halt Eviction Order. For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra, tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO LIVE Since 2000, over 3,000 Guatemalan women have been murdered, many of them first abducted and subjected to brutal sexual violence, mutilation, and torture. These gender-based, barbaric crimes have been characterized as “femicides.”. Amnesty International places most of the victims between the ages of 16-36 and identifies them as

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FACT SHEETS « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 2009. Banana Companies in Guatemala (2009) Labor Rights (2009) Narcotrafficking (2009) Neoliberalism (2009) DIANNA ORTIZ MEMORIAL « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission from 1994 to 2002. A survivor of torture in Guatemala, Dianna bravely pursued her case through the Guatemalan court system in the early 90s, to no avail, and bravely continued fighting for the rights of survivors of torture, founding the Torture Abolition and Survivor’s Support Coalition in 1998, as a project of GHRC. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO GIAMATTEI APPEARS January 15, 2020. GHRC. President-elect Alejandro Giammattei took office yesterday in Guatemala City. He was never expected to win. After three unsuccessful presidential bids, Giammattei made the runoff Presidential election in August by just one percentage point and only after three candidates had been eliminated through legal actions. GENOCIDE IN THE IXIL TRIANGLE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The result was bloodshed and suffering on an unimaginable scale: massacres, assassinations, torture, rape, burning of homes and crops, and the complete eradication of villages. Between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed between 1981 and 1983 and thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed– an estimated 5.5% of the entire DOS ERRES MASSACRE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Dos Erres Massacre. In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the

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ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

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THREE-THOUSAND AND COUNTING, A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST Three thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala • At the Morgue • In May 2007, a mother of two small children left her house in Guatemala City to look GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION/USA FACT SHEET BANANA the campaign declaring Arbenz Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Fact Sheet Banana Companies in Guatemala: A century of Abuse of Land

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HISTORY AND TIMELINE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION History and Timeline. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) was founded in 1982 amid the turmoil of Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. Founder Sister Alice Zachmann, SSND, first traveled to Guatemala in 1975, and again in 1979, where she was struck by the incredible levels of poverty and discrimination among Guatemala’s

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WHO WE ARE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Who We Are. Director, Guatemala City Office. Isabel Solis. isolis@ghrc-usa.org. Isabel Solis is a Mayan activist who has been working for over 20 years as a grassroots community organizer. Isabel specializes in communal land rights, indigenous rights, the impacts of international extractive industries, and defense of human THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS: AS THE April 8, 2020. GHRC reporting from Washington and Guatemala. The COVID-19 crisis is hitting Central America’s fragile Northern Triangle–Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador–full force. Though to date relatively few confirmed cases have been reported, a serious food crisis appears to already be underway. SEPUR ZARCO SEXUAL SLAVERY CASE « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS The Sepur Zarco case is historic for being the first criminal trial that pertains to sexual violence during Guatemala’s armed conflict, as well as the first sexual slavery case heard in a national court. Importantly, it also illustrates the army’s use of rape as a weapon of war and of genocide. ASSASSINATION OF BISHOP GERARDI « GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS Assassination of Bishop Gerardi. Before his death in 1998, Roman Catholic Archbishop and human rights defender Juan José Gerardi Conedera was one of the strongest voices speaking out against the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict. Following the January 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy which resulted in the

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HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ATTEND PUBLIC HEARING TO HALT EVICTION ORDER For almost two hundred years, an indigenous Q’eqchi community has called Plan Grande in El Estor, Izabal home. In 2016, two agribusiness companies, CXI and Inversiones Cobra

,

tried to evict 46 families from their land, claiming the residents were invading their property. With the support of Bufete para Pueblos Indígenas, a law firm for Indigenous Peoples, the community is

demanding

an immediate annulment of that eviction order. Environmental and land rights defender Abelino Chub Caal was present at the hearing and testified on behalf of the community. Chub expressed serious concerns over the attempt to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land in order to protect the interests of big companies. However, he expects that the judges will allow the eviction to go forward because, as he

notes

,

indigenous people in Guatemala are  consistently  treated as “inferior” by the justice system.

In a 2018 report

by the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Francisco Cali Tzay, expressed a similar concern. “In many cases, court rulings disregard the rights of the indigenous peoples and indigenous claims are not heard as promptly as those of other parties. Previous rights are being ignored, including in situations in which a community has a recognized

ownership title.”

GHRC will continue to fight for the right of indigenous peoples to defend their land and territory against the interests of private

companies.

Here are a few other human rights issues in the region we’re

watching:

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and other civil society organizations denounced the May 1 decision by El Salvador’s Congress to dismiss the Attorney General as well as five Supreme Court justices. This action is contrary to the law and constitutionally mandated separation of powers. * On April 26th, Vice President Kamala Harris met virtually with President Giammattei shortly after the US announced sanctions on one current and one former Guatemalan government official for their role in corruption. The two leaders announced an agreement to train members of a Guatemalan task force responsible for securing the country’s borders. Security forces and military personnel in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras have been repeatedly reported to endanger the lives of migrants heading north. * A hearing in the case of Q’eqchi’ human rights defender and leader, María Cuc Choc, was supposed to take place on May 6.  In 2018, she was arbitrarily detained on unsubstantiated crimes of aggravated trespassing, threats, and illegal detention. Since 2018, the court has repeatedly postponed Choc’s hearing while mandating that she stay in the Department of Izabal. Her lawyer from the Bufete para Pueblos Indígenas confirmed on Thursday that the court has once again suspended the hearing, continuing a pattern of judicial harassment of human rights defenders. For more information on the Plan Grande case and the updates above,

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