Guatemala

Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Alberto Alonso-Fredejas, Guatemala

August 2013

Alberto Alonso-Fredejas on the narrative contexts in which land grabs are presented and legitimized, and how such activities lead to questions around capital, labor and community relations.

Sons and Daughters of the Earth

April 2013
Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.

Land Grabbing in Latin America

January 2013

A special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies introducing a previously under-explored geographic region into the emerging land grab literature. Available for free till end of May.

The Northern Triangle’s drugs-violence nexus

November 2012
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Liza ten Velde

The countries of the Northern Triangle are experiencing much higher rates of violence and increasing Drug Trafficking Organization (DTOs) activity than Mexico which has occupied the limelight when it comes to media attention. To what extent is the drugs trade responsible for this violence?

Golden Lie: Resistance against mining in Guatemala

November 2012
Lyda Fernanda Forero

Peasant communities have denounced Canadian company Radius Gold Inc for mining without consent on their territories and appealed for international solidarity.