The Fuego volcano eruption destroyed properties recently sold to indigenous Guatemalans for subsistence farming.
Jackie McVicar
Jackie McVicar has accompanied human rights social movements and land protectors in Central America for more than 10 years.
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Bishop Gerardi was killed 20 years ago in Guatemala. The search for justice continues today.
Trials for genocide and human rights violations are proceeding in Guatemala, even after the death of the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.
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As activists go underground, U.N. reports on excessive force in Honduras
The U.N. report documents cases of extrajudicial murders committed by police, illegal house raids and threats and harassment against journalists and social and political activists in Honduras.