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Friday, May 24, 2013
| Location: | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras |
| Category: | Exercises, News Email, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Pages: Southern Partnership Station 13 Mission Concludes |
| Author/Source: | Air Force Master Sgt. Chris Stagner SOUTHCOM |
| Brief: | U.S. Marine Corps and Seabee detachments remained in Honduras as the Swift successfully tested an Aerostat inflatable aircraft and Puma UAV that could possibly serve as future platforms to conduct Operation Martillo counter drug operations in the Caribbea |
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Free Trade |
| Title: | Costa Rica and Guatemala move closer to joining Pacific Alliance bloc Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/23/3413506/costa-rica-and-guatemala-move.html#storylink=cpy |
| Author/Source: | Jim Wyss The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | One of the prerequisites to joining the two-year-old Alliance is to have free-trade agreements with all members |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, News Email |
| Title: | Was there genocide in Guatemala? |
| Author/Source: | Will Grant BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Barely two weeks ago, a court agreed. There had been genocide in Guatemala, the presiding Judge Jazmin Barrios said, and the then-President Rios Montt was guilty |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, News Email, Video |
| Title: | Rios Montt genocide case stirs Guatemala tensions |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Just days after he was sentenced to 80 years in prison, the decision was overturned by a higher court |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Convocan a protestas por anulacion de la sentencia a Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Grupos de indigenas, mujeres y de derechos humanos convocaron a realizar protestas este viernes en al menos siete paises de Latinoamerica en repudio a la anulacion de la sentencia de 80 anos de prision por genocidio contra el ex dictador guatemalteco Efra |
Thursday, May 23, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System, News Email |
| Title: | Justice Interrupted in Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | The Editorial Board The New York Times |
| Brief: | The United States, which supported the general and his regime during the war and apologized for that in 1999, provides aid for the justice system. It should urge that the case be pursued through an independent process |
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
| Location: | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras |
| Category: | Overseas Military Missions, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Southern Partnership Station 13 Mission Concludes |
| Author/Source: | Sgt. Chris Stagner U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Marine Corps and Seabee detachments remained in Honduras as the Swift successfully tested an Aerostat inflatable aircraft and Puma UAV that could possibly serve as future platforms to conduct Operation Martillo. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Guatemaltecos genocidas, polarizacion y opinion internacional |
| Author/Source: | Plaza Publica (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | El fallo de la Corte de Constitucionalidad da un alto en el camino. El poder respira tranquilo por ahora. Mientras la acusacion y la defensa reordenan sus estrategias, aprovechemos para pensar sobre lo visto. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | El juicio que debera regresar en el tiempo |
| Author/Source: | Plaza Publica |
| Brief: | Divididos, en tres y dos, los cinco magistrados de la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC), tras mas de cuatro dias de deliberaciones, decidieron, finalmente, anular la sentencia en contra de los generales |
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
| Location: | Argentina, Guatemala, Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Tres dictadores |
| Author/Source: | Rocio Silva Santisteban La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | Los latinoamericanos debemos de sentirnos orgullosos de haber puesto en la carcel a estos tres dictadores |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Guatemala, Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Guatemala’s Highest Court Overturns Genocide Conviction of Former Dictator |
| Author/Source: | Elizabeth Malkin |
| Brief: |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Guatemala's Constitutional Court Overturns Rios Montt Conviction and Sends Trial Back to April 19 |
| Author/Source: | Emi MacLean Riosmontt-trial.org |
| Brief: | At least for now, the Constitutional Court ordered that the same trial court - Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios and her associates Pablo Xitumul and Patricia Bustamante - reconvene to consider the case. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Anulan sentencia contra Rios Montt por genocidio en Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico |
| Brief: | El ex gobernante fue condenado el pasado 10 de mayo por genocidio y crimenes de guerra durante su mandato, sin embargo, el tribunal admitio el amparo introducido por la defensa |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Anulan sentencia contra Rios Montt por genocidio en Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico |
| Brief: | El ex gobernante fue condenado el pasado 10 de mayo por genocidio y crimenes de guerra durante su mandato, sin embargo, el tribunal admitio el amparo introducido por la defensa |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Corte de Constitucionalidad anula sentencia de 80 anos de prision contra Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | El caso vuelve a como se encontraba el 19 de abril, cuando la defensa interpuso unos recursos y el proceso contra el general retirado continuo |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | CC anula condena a Efrain Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | Byron Vasquez Y Manuel Hernandez Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | La Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC) anulo ayer por mayoria la sentencia condenatoria de 80 anos de prision impuesta por el Tribunal Primero A de Mayor Riesgo contra el general retirado Jose Efrain Rios Montt, por genocidio y deberes contra la humanidad |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Guatemala, el poder, la sentencia, Somalia |
| Author/Source: | Martin Rodriguez Pellecer Plaza Publica (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | Para nosotros, es una buena manera de cerrar un capitulo horroroso de la historia de Guatemala, que no es el pais mas siniestro del mundo, como apunta un periodista surafricano |
Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | La Sentencia |
| Author/Source: | Helen Mack El Faro |
| Brief: | Podemos, si queremos, edificar desde la aceptacion de la verdad, la reflexion serena y la conduccion inteligente de la vida social, a cada quien donde le corresponda, una convivencia social pacifica e inteligente |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | NY Times continues debating US role in Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | Mike Allison Central American Politics |
| Brief: | Declassified documents indicate that the US wasn't as involved in the Guatemalan genocide in the early 1980s as much as many people think. Reagan's public statements were probably some of the most damaging things that we did. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin New York Times |
| Brief: | "The U.S. played a very powerful and direct role in the life of this institution, the army, that went on to commit genocide." |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Statement of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on the Conviction of Jose Efrain Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | The Guatemalan court's ruling demonstrates that everyone is subject to justice, and even the most vulnerable communities can seek and achieve justice for heinous crimes committed against them. |
Thursday, May 16, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Lessons from Guatemala on how to catch a dictator |
| Author/Source: | Mike McDonald Global Post |
| Brief: | Guatemalan President Otto Perez, the first military man to rule the country since the war's end, has also denied genocide and said the verdict will harm the country's image and stymie foreign investment. |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Jailed ex-Guatemala dictator Rios Montt remains in hospital for unspecified health problem |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is spending a second day at a military hospital after fainting while on his way to a court hearing. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Victory in Guatemala? Not Yet |
| Author/Source: | Victoria Sanford New York Times |
| Brief: | How can the Obama administration possibly justify sending military aid to a president who does this, let alone a president who might be guilty of genocide? |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | El fin de la mentira ixil |
| Author/Source: | Jose Luis Sanz El Faro |
| Brief: | Por 30 anos, Guatemala llamo mentirosos a los ixiles cuando denunciaban el genocidio, las masacres y la obcecada persecucion del ejercito en su contra. |
Monday, May 13, 2013
| Location: | El Salvador, Guatemala |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Del conflicto armado a las pandillas: "Desasosiego" |
| Author/Source: | Julie Lopez El Faro |
| Brief: | La fotografa estadounidense Donna De Cesare reune en su nuevo libro un trabajo de tres decadas en El Salvador, Guatemala y Los Angeles, sustentando con fotografias que la violencia actual es consecuencia directa de los conflictos armados. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin New York Times |
| Brief: | How long he will stay there is less clear than the verdict. His lawyers said they would appeal, and injunctions filed during the case still await rulings. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Guatemala: Why We Cannot Turn Away |
| Author/Source: | Xeni Jardin PBS |
| Brief: | I have been in Guatemala reporting on this story now for more than a month, and each day, it takes some new, unexpected, dramatic turn. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Putting ex-dictator behind bars pleases many in Guatemala, but fears remain he could go free |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Most in Guatemala feel the sentence prison represents a triumph after a long struggle in a country still recovering from a 36-year-civil war that ended with peace accords in 1996. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Ex-dictator's backers rally at Guatemala prison |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press USA Today |
| Brief: | At least 500 people have protested outside a Guatemala prison against the genocide conviction for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Guatemala: un paso para la humanidad |
| Author/Source: | El Faro |
| Brief: | Nunca antes, en la historia de la humanidad, un ex jefe de Estado habia sido juzgado por genocidio en su propio pais y tampoco encontrado culpable |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Rios Montt, el primer exgobernante latinoamericano condenado por genocidio |
| Author/Source: | Edgar Calderon Agence France Presse El Faro |
| Brief: | Latinoamerica lleno una nueva pagina en su historia, porque este 10 de mayo la region conocio al primer exdictador latinoamericano condenado por genocidio. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Sentencia debe generar unidad y no mas confrontacion |
| Author/Source: | Claudia Mendez Villasenor El Periodico |
| Brief: | Lideres religiosos, politicos, activistas y militares retirados ofrecen una opinion en torno al fallo condenatorio emitido el viernes ultimo, contra el general Efrain Rios Montt. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Una condena por genocidio |
| Author/Source: | Oswaldo J. Hernandez Plaza Publica |
| Brief: | Cuando entro el tribunal, y la presencia de los tres jueces creo un profundo silencio, se supo que habria una sentencia. Y nada podia detenerla. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | El CACIF le pide a la CC la anulacion de la condena contra Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | Alvaro Montenegro El Periodico |
| Brief: | Los empresarios aseguran que el Tribunal hizo una calificacion inadecuada de la figura de genocidio. Familias de militares convocan para un planton frente a la CC. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Explaining the Jump in Guatemala's Murder Rate |
| Author/Source: | Elyssa Pachico InSight Crime |
| Brief: | One explanation for the "pullback" is that Guatemala is feeling the impact of the declining security in neighboring Honduras. |
Friday, May 10, 2013
| Location: | Colombia, Guatemala |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US, Colombia, and Guatemala collaborate during civil affairs exchange |
| Author/Source: | Capt. Daisy C. Bueno Special Operations Command South |
| Brief: | Civil affairs officers from U.S. Southern Command and Special Operations Command South participated in a Colombian-led Subject Matter Expert Exchange with Guatemalan civil affairs service members in Guatemala April 23-25. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Video: Guatemala genocide trial: witnesses of atrocities tell their stories |
| Author/Source: | Ofelia De Pablo, Javier Zurita The Guardian |
| Brief: | Here, witnesses give their accounts of some of the atrocities between 1960 and 1996, when more than 200,000 people are thought to have died. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Viaje a Nebaj |
| Author/Source: | Rodrigo Rey Rosa El Faro |
| Brief: | "Ha costado mucho vencer el miedo. Primero, para desenterrar a los muertos. Luego, para atestiguar. Pero confiamos, tenemos que confiar, en la justicia. Pero mire". |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Rios Montt rompe el silencio: "Nunca ordene que se atentara contra una etnia" |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Faro |
| Brief: | El exdictador guatemalteco logro que, a reganadientes, el tribunal que lo juzga por genocidio accediera a que hiciera una declaracion en la que ni defensa ni acusadores podian interrogarlo. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | La luz para superar la impunidad |
| Author/Source: | Plaza Publica |
| Brief: | Mientras el pueblo ixil le agradece al Estado la posibilidad de que el juicio se realice, los paramilitares que aletean junto o alrededor de los acusados y su cohorte, llaman a destruir la institucionalidad. |
Thursday, May 9, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations |
| Title: | Los solitarios hijos de aquel ejercito |
| Author/Source: | Alejandra Gutierrez Valdizan Plaza Publica |
| Brief: | Los autos se detienen y se llevan a pasear por la ciudad la calcomania que ellos pegan: "L@s guatemaltec@s no somos genocidas”. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Ministerio Publico pide 75 anos contra militares retirados |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre |
| Brief: | El Ministerio Publico solicito este jueves ante el Tribunal Primero A de Mayor Riesgo una pena de 75 anos de prision a los militares retirados Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez y Jose Efrain Rios Montt, procesados por delitos de genocidio. |
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Guatemala and Mexico: A Working Paper |
| Author/Source: | Colby Goodman Wilson Center |
| Brief: | Although many arms are trafficked into Guatemala from non-U.S. sources, this working brief aims to shine a spotlight on what is currently known about the illicit movement of U.S. origin firearms into Guatemala. |