Guatemalan-Maya Center’s Letter to Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina

ICTMN Staff
June 07, 2012
The Guatemalan-Maya Center , based in Florida, is home to 30,000-plus Mayans who have fled their country's Huehuetenango region as conflict unfolds over the Hydroelectric Dam Santa...
Devon G. Peña

Learning Peacefulness From the Zapotecas

I have for some time been analyzing the “ecology of fear” and the climate of hatred it generates to feed the growing menace of presumably random acts of violence in Arizona such as last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

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May 04, 2012

Guatemala’s Mayans Take Their Demands to New Government

David Dudenhoefer
April 02, 2012
Lucas Garcia Pop, a 30-year-old Q’eqchi Mayan farmer, lost everything last year when he and his neighbors were evicted from Finca San Pablo Pomoxón, a sugar plantation in the Poloc...

Intellectualizing the Pow Wow: Academic Tome Tells All

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2012
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era (University Press of Colorado, 2012), by Matthew Krystal, is an über-academic tome that only a schol...

CNN Special ‘Narco Wars’ Focuses on Central America as the Murder Capital of the World

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2012
Mexico may be known for it’s drug trafficking and cartels, but in Central America there are countries known for their murder rates...

Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala Victim of Employment Racism

ICTMN Staff
January 06, 2012
In a study conducted in November by the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES), an NGO, and the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism Against Indigenous...

Indigenous Peoples Discuss Human Rights with European Parliament

ICTMN Staff
September 05, 2011
Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala and Colombia met with members of the European Parliament in June where they shared their concerns on human rights violations, labor rights and the i...

Fighting to Stay on Their Land: The Maya Q’Eqchi of Guatemala

Rick Kearns
August 30, 2011
One Mayan community in Guatemala is fighting for its right to stay on its own land, and they are looking for support from other Indigenous Peoples also...

Indigenous Peoples, One of the Most Vulnerable to Food Insecurity in Latin America

Maria Clara Valencia
June 30, 2011
In Bogota (Colombia) experts on food security and the right to food from different countries discussed strategies to fight against hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, a regi...

Menchu Announces Run for Guatemala Presidency

Rick Kearns
May 13, 2011
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu will run again for the presidency of Guatemala this year on the Winaq Party ticket...

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