Humans of Guatemala

Illustration by Baku Estrada Guatemala NosDuelen56

The evidence from Guatemala is particularly worrying.

Kagan's next research was in San Marcos, Guatemala.

Guatemala is one of the countries championing action against climate change.

International Women's Day in March 2017 became a tragic one for Guatemala after 41 girls burned to death in a blaze at a state run home for children on the outskirts of Guatemala City.

He was committed to social justice from a young age.

56 artists from 6 countries joined the NosDuelen56. They illustrated the faces of the girls of Guatemala.

AntiguaDailyPhoto posts a slideshow with photos of Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala taken by Leonel Mijangos.

America made comparable errors in Guatemala and elsewhere in Latin America.

Barrios was shot and killed in Guatemala city on November 12.

Yuri Melini is known inside and outside Guatemala as a human rights and indigenous rights defender.

Guatemala's future seems to receive a blow with the death of Jeremy Barrios, a young member of the Center for Social, Legal and Environmental Action (In Spanish, CALAS) Foto taken from Pixabay.

Some 80 of Latin American cocaine reaching the US passes through the country at some point. President Álvaro Colom in February claimed that 40 of the 6,200 murders recorded in 2008 were linked to drug related violence.

Guatemala has been the most obvious victim so far, but Honduras also suffers all the similar conditions to be the next in line.

In other places for example, Guatemala and parts of the Andean region social divisions remain fraught with violence and distrust.

Wendy Del Aguila, who now writes the captions, told Elmer about Humans of New York and he felt motivated to start a similar page about Guatemala.

In Guatemala, the largest economy, less than 3 of workers are unionized and their unions are marginal.

Elmer Alvarez had already been taking photographs of people around Guatemala before starting the Facebook page Humans of Guatemala in September 2013.

Head further south to Central America Guatemala in particular and the failed state paradigm may be far more applicable.

This is true as much as for the rest of Central America with the general exception of Costa Rica and Panama as it is for Guatemala alone.

In El Salvador, the gangs became an issue at the end of the 1980 s in Guatemala and Honduras, the gangs appeared in the first half of the 1990 s.

They are also seasonal breeders, with the breeding season being March to April in Mexico, May to June in El Salvador and March to May in Guatemala.

Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Central American liberals objected to this, but an army from Mexico under General Vicente Filisola occupied Guatemala City and quelled dissent.

The New York Times recently published an exceptional description of Ecuadorian polleros transporting their human cargo to the coasts of Guatemala and then onward through Mexico to the US.

Antigua Daily Photo will be publishing one photo per day for one week of Lent processions in Antigua, Guatemala.

The Zetas star recruits in recent years have come from the Guatemalan military s special forces, whose infamous induction technique involved biting off the head of a live chicken.

It is only then that formulas for power sharing such as those in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Guatemala, or Iraq emerge as a realistic alternative.

Nicaragua and Mexico, which receive many deportees from the United States, have never had the number of gang members seen in El Salvador and Guatemala.

Ronald Reagan's death forced many people to confront once again the legacy of Central America's brutal wars in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua of two decades ago.

In a region with a strong indigenous past but a scattered and isolated present, Bolivia is, alongside Guatemala, perhaps the only country in Latin America where indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population.

Evidence from El Salvador would appear to bear this point out the Salvadoran police are widely regarded as stronger and more efficient, but crime rates remain roughly on a par with Guatemala.

She is educating the indigenous people of her country about what it means to be a democracy, about how you bring democracy to the country, about educating, about how to vote but that democracy is not just about voting it's about being an active citizen.

In both countries, impunity is the key in Guatemala only 4 (at most) of all crimes, and less than 2 of murders, result in a criminal conviction.

Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy legalization.

Avoid overly optimistic projections that lead to unworkable plans and unreasonable expectations, which the government will not be able to fulfill, as happened in Guatemala, for example, when its civil war ended.

Proponents of a different strategy (Presidents Juan Manuel Santos and Otto Peréz Molina of Colombia and Guatemala, respectively, among others), based on public health premises and legalization, are gaining ground.

The murder of 22 year old Jeremy Barrios, a young environmentalist in Guatemala, has increased concerns over the threats that environmentalist defenders endure and the failure of the state to provide protection to organisations under threat.

Guatemala is actively encouraging Canada, and its Prime Minister, to react to the widespread violence against human rights defenders opposing environmental damage by Canadian companies, as explained by the Network of Solidarity with the people in Guatemala (NISGUA)

Though the conviction has since been overturned by Guatemala s Constitutional Court, Ríos Montt joins dozens of former heads of state and government leaders who have been prosecuted for gross abuses of human rights since the ICTY was established.

Not even in Nicaragua, which shares many of the characteristics of the other countries of the region, have gangs become dedicated to killing and terrorizing the population in the way that they do in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and now in Chiapas, Mexico.

As the country struggles for accountability on the crimes of the past and engages in processes against impunity, it is expected that, with the support of the International Community, that Guatemala can also safeguard the leaders and human rights defenders for the sake of its own future.

The problem of juvenile gangs in Central America is not new. In El Salvador, the gangs became an issue at the end of the 1980 s in Guatemala and Honduras, the gangs appeared in the first half of the 1990 s.

And Mexico is not alone. Drug trafficking activities have grown significantly throughout Central America and the Caribbean, fueling an unprecedented increase in the murder rate which has doubled in countries like Guatemala and Jamaica over the last decade.