June 18, 2008 Upside Down World
	U.S. Has Central America’s Northern Triangle in Its Sights -- Drug trafficking, migration, high crime rates and even a supposed Iranian presence was the cocktail of concerns raised by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on his recent tour of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
November 06, 2007 BBC News
	Tasks for new Guatemalan president -- The new centre-left president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, wants his country to be a model of social democracy with a "Mayan face".
September 14, 2007 Upside Down World
	Back to the Future in the Guatemalan Elections -- The September 9 election to replace Guatemalan President Oscar Berger featured more body bags than tangible ideas to improve the country. Now facing a runoff election, voters are left with the tired choice between a military strongman and an oligarch.
August 13, 2007 BBC News
	Guatemala launches adoption probe -- Guatemalan authorities are trying to check the status of 46 young children to see if they were taken from their parents for illegal adoption abroad.
July 18, 2007 IRC Americas Program
	Guatemala and Costa Rica: In and Out of CAFTA -- It was a short, but eloquent, announcement: after nearly a year in CAFTA's orbit, the same traditional exports as always are growing, outside of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The message is overwhelming: the country "sacrificed" itself to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States for nothing. The CAFTA model, pushing the Central American economy toward the export of non-traditional goods to the United States, has been a pretext for imposing expensive foreign pharmaceuticals as opposed to cheap, national generic drugs, overwhelming the peasant farmer with subsidized imports, and granting extra-territorial jurisdiction to foreign companies.
March 28, 2007 Upside Down World
	Ex-USTR Negotiator Vargo Key in CAFTA Case -- Pittsburgh-based Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has hired former US trade agreement negotiator, Regina Vargo, and filed suit against the Guatemalan government under the investor-state provisions within Chapter 10 of CAFTA. RDC is parent to Ferrovias Guatemala, which signed a 50-year concession with Guatemalan President Arzu in 1997 to operate 500 miles of Guatemalan line. The company believes it is the first to file a Chapter 10 suit since CAFTA went into effect on March 1, 2006.
March 23, 2007 RIghts Action
	MINING MISERY: GUATEMALA IS ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES THAT HAS ATTRACTED THE INVESTMENT OF CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES - BUT AT WHAT COST TO ITS PEOPLE? -- Outside Chichipate, Martín Col Caal, a 21-year-old subsistence farmer, is cobbling together a makeshift shelter, using tree branches and palm leaves, for his wife and two young children. About 200 other indigenous families are here in the grassy valley, dubbing their new home Barrio de la Revolución -- Neighbourhood of the Revolution. Today, a steamy day in September 2006, more than 3,000 indigenous people from Chichipate and El Estor have set up similar households on five different sites, defiantly claiming the land as their own, land they say was stolen from their grandparents in the 1960s. Skye Resources, a Vancouver-based junior mining company, which bought the land from Canadian mining giant Inco in 2004, has different plans for the site. With the price of nickel at a 19-year high, Skye intends to re-open the mine in 2009, with construction slated to start this year. The indigenous occupants say they are not here to protest the mine--they simply need the land to subsist. But one of the five groups is sitting on a nickel deposit. Either the mining company or the squatters will have to go.
March 23, 2007 Inside US Trade
	State Case Under CAFTA Against Guatemala -- The Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) last week filed a notice of intent to submit claims to international arbitration against Guatemala under the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) for indirect expropriation of company assets. This is the first investor-state case filed under CAFTA.
March 18, 2007 Prensa Libre
	GUATEMALA: PLAN SOFIA COMES TO LIGHT -- Not one district attorney has had access, until now, to a classified Guatemalan Army document which tells of military operations executed during the internal armed conflict, against subversive cells or elements.
March 16, 2007 Washington Post
	Labor Rights in Guatemala Aided Little by Trade Deal -- Nearly two years have passed since the countries of Central America vowed to strengthen worker rights as they sought votes in Congress for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. Yet there has been little if any progress, according to diplomats, labor inspectors, workers and managers.
March 15, 2007 Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
	US Investors in Guatemalan Rail Privatization Give Notice of CAFTA Arbitration -- In what may be the first arbitration to arise under the investment chapter of the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a US-based investor has filed a notice of intent to sue Guatemala for alleged breach of the CAFTA rules.
March 12, 2007 New York Times
	Bush to Press Free Trade in a Place Where Young Children Still Cut the Cane -- President Bush is likely to miss this side of Guatemala*s labor market when he comes to this rural area on Monday to visit a thriving agricultural cooperative that sells products to Wal-Mart*s stores in Central America. The president will meet with Mariano Canú, the leader of a United States-backed co-op that hopes to take advantage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Mr. Canú is doing well enough that his children are in school preparing for Guatemala*s new economy.
March 07, 2007 COMMUNAL FRONT OF RESISTANCE TO MINING EXPLOITATION
	PRESS RELEASE AND DECLARATION BY THE COMMUNITIES IN RESISTANCE IN SAN MIGUAL IXTAHUACAN, SAN MARCOS, GUATEMALA -- We, members of the indigenous communities that live around the Marlin mine, owned by Montana Exploradora de Guatemala, a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational corporation GOLDCORP, declare as follows:
November 13, 2006 Rights Action
	Violent and Illegal Evictions in Guatemala Related to Skye Resources Nickel Mining Company -- On Saturday, November 11 at 2 o’clock in the morning a group of 60 Mayan-Q’eqchi’ families entered Chupon, a property allegedly owned by the Compañia Guatemalteca de Níquel (CGN), the wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian mining company Skye Resource Inc., which in turn is controlled by the Canadian INCO mining company. The property is located in front of the CGN community relations office. On the same day, at approximately 3 o’clock in the morning, the National Civilian Police (PNC) entered the property in order to evict the occupiers.
November 12, 2006 Rights Action/NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with Guatemala)
	Arrest Warrants Against Former Military Officials! -- Guatemalan courts decided to give the green light for the extradition to Spain of retired military officials Mejia Víctores, Angel Aníbal Guevara, Benedicto Lucas Garcia, German Chupina Barahona, Donaldo Alvarez and Pedro Garcia Arredondo. These are six of the former military officials who are accused of carrying out genocide and, in this case, charged with the burning of the Spanish Embassy on January 30th, 1980.
November 12, 2006 Rights Action
	Xalala Dam Project: Water Privatization, -- Yet another internationally funded mega “development” project has resulted in death. Mayan communities in the area where the Xalala hydroelectric dam construction is planned are extremely alarmed at recent violence in the area and accusations made by the Guatemala National Institute for Electrical Development (INDE) against community leaders from the town of Margaritas Copon, the village situated where the actual dam would be constructed.
November 02, 2006 Americas Program, International Relations Center
	Guatemala: Two Months of CAFTA -- In 2006, Guatemala finds itself in a critical situation that continues to worsen. Over half the population (56%) is poor, and 21% live in extreme poverty.
October 24, 2006 Guatemala Human Rights Commission- USA
	URGENT ACTION: Community Health Workers Threatened -- The employees of the Team for Community Studies and Psychosocial Action (ECAP) were victims of threats and intimidation on two occasions in the past month. On the morning of Saturday, September 30, 2006, an employee of ECAP was followed for several hours in Rabinal by an Isuzu car with tinted windows and without license plates. On Monday, October 2 at approximately 3:00 AM, a letter was found at the ECAP office in Rabinal that said, “You should be careful, because you all are scheduled for a kidnapping and for something more…This October 2 you shouldn’t travel at all or meet with anyone…Take care of yourselves before you regret it…”
September 28, 2006 Washington Post
	Exhuming the Past in a Painful Quest: Guatemalan Victims' Families Seek Closure, Justice -- NEBAJ, Guatemala -- A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past. Spurred by a surge of requests from victims' families this year, dozens of forensic anthropologists have been fanning out across the countryside to search for remains of the 200,000 people -- most of them Mayan Indian civilians -- who were killed or abducted during the 36-year conflict.
July 14, 2006 Inside US Trade.
	GUATEMALA TO DELAY POCKET LINING CHANGE UNTIL BEER DEAL DONE. -- Guatemala is expected to delay the implementation of an agreement with the U.S. that would alter the textile provisions of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) until the U.S. agrees to further alter CAFTA in a way that would allow Guatemala to phase out tariffs on beer over 15 years rather than immediately eliminating them.
June 18, 2006 Miami Herald
	CAFTA threatens small farmers -- GUATEMALA'S GOVERNMENT SAYS CAFTA IS THE ONLY WAY TO GAIN ACCESS TO BIGGER MARKETS; CRITICS SAY IT THREATENS BOTH LIVELIHOODS AND TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LIFE
October 21, 2005 New York Times
	Guatemala's Murder Women -- For the last five years, Guatemala has suffered an epidemic of gruesome killings of women that are as mysterious as they are brutal. Typically a young woman in Guatemala City vanishes, and her body turns up a few days later in a garbage bag or in an open field. Many of the women's faces and bodies have been mutilated, and many have been tortured sexually or otherwise. Some of the bodies have messages, like "death to bitches," scrawled on them.
September 16, 2005 Indecencia Demoratica
	Artificial Survival -- Last night on CBS, the eleventh season of the very popular reality TV show, “Survivor,” which was filmed in the national park Yaxhá-Nakúm-Naranjo in Petén, Guatemala, premiered. This location was promoted to the contestants and more that 200 million viewers as the region that the mysterious, fascinating, and now disappeared Maya Civilization once inhabited. Isolated inside the National Park, which was closed during the filming period, one would have to assume that the contestants and production team did not realize that the Maya still make up more than half of the Guatemalan population...
August 24, 2005 By Cyril Mychalejko
	GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO GOLD MINE GAINS MOMENTUM -- Indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala who are organizing against an illegal gold mine in the face of violence and repression are beginning to see the fruits of their labor.
August 12, 2005 Rights Action
	Open Letter to the President of Skye Resources -- We, the elected and appointed representatives of twenty Q‚eqchi‚ Mayan communities located in the township of El Estor in the department of Izabal and in the township of Panzós in the department of Alta Verapaz, gathered in El Estor on the day 7 B‚e of our Mayan calendar, August 12, 2005
July 20, 2005 Rights Action
	San Miguel Ixtahuacán announces community consultations concerning open pit mining and the global mining industry -- Below, Sandra Cuffe (Rights Action) writes of upcoming community based consultations in the very municipality where the Canadian-US Glamis Gold company is already building a large mining operation. There never were open and proper consultations with the local Mayan communities (Sipakapense and Mam) concerning whether or not they wanted mining in their communities and municipalities.
July 08, 2005 GHRC/USA
	URGENT ACTION: CEIBA LEADER THREATENED -- Mario GodÌnez, General Coordinator of the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Community (CEIBA), received a serious threat at the his office yesterday, July 7.  CEIBA has been very active in opposition to the expansion of open pit mining and CAFTA, among other issues.  See below for more detail.
June 23, 2005 Guatemala Human Rights Commission
	URGENT ACTION -- José Ernesto Menchú Tojib, a member of the Committee for Campesino Unity (CUC) and a member of the Movement of Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict in Uspantán, Quiché, received a death threat on 19 June and has been in hiding since.
March 18, 2005 Amnesty International
	Death threats to journalist reporting on demonstrations against CAFTA -- Journalists Marielos Monzon and Gabriel Mazzarovich have been subjected to death treats and intimidation, in what appears to be an effort to force them to stop reporting on demonstrations by groups including farmers, indigenous communities and teachers, who say the recently ratified Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will destroy their livelihood. The police and army are alleged to have used excessive force in response the demonstrations. Amnesty International is seriouslyc oncerned for the journalists' safety.
March 17, 2005 New York Times
	PROTESTERS AND POLICE CLASH -- Protesters clashed with riot police who fired tear gas in the highland town of Santa Cruz del Quiché, in the eighth day of protests around the country over a free-trade deal with the United States.