Photo Essays

2011-06. LGBT Pride Parade in Guatemala City

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Images form the eleventh annual Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans Pride Parade and festival in Guatemala City’s historical center.

2011-06. Former General Hector Lopez Fuentes: First arrest in connection to Genocide in Guatemala

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General Lopez Fuentes, accused of genocide makes first court appearance after arrest.

2011-02. Transitions: Violence, Disability and Vindication

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Transitions provides youth with disabilities services for social reintegration. Antigua, Guatemala.

2010-10. Maximón and the Worship of Saint Simon in Itzapa

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One of the region’s most perplexing expressions of Mayan-Catholic syncretism.

2010-09. Exhumations at La Verbena: The Time has Come, with this Evidence, to Seek Justice

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In search of the 45,000 detained-disappeared. Guatemala City.

2010-08. Project of Mass Destruction: Goldcorp’s Peñasquito Mine

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Latin America’s largest gold producing mine is located in Mexico’s Zacatecan semi-desert.

2010-04. Easter in Zone 1: Processions

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Catholic faithful commemorate Easter through processions and festivities in Guatemala City’s historic center: Zone 1.

2010-04. Easter in Zone 1: Street Vendors

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Income-earning opportunity for Guatemalans who depend on the informal economic sector.

2010-02. In Memory of our Martyrs and the Bloodshed in Comalapa

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CONAVIGUA inaugurates a memorial chapel in the former military garrison of Comalapa.

2010-02. Gold Fever: Artisanal and Industrial Extraction in the Mining Triangle

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The dangers behind industrial and artisanal gold extraction in the Mining Triangle, Nicaragua.

2010-02. History Repeats: Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared of Honduras

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COFADEH’s work takes center stage as repression increases after the 2009 coup d’etat.

2009-12. The Incessant Search for the Disappeared: Exhumation in Villalobos

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FAMDEGUA and FAFG exhume possible mass grave in search of the disappeared.

2009-11. Migration and Cultural Syncretism: Patron Saint Day in Todos Santos Cuchumatán

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Todos Santos celebrates its yearly fair on November 1st with a unique horse race.

2009-10. Xeabaj II: Beneath the Rock and the Storm

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Women’s group from a Kakchiquel community that relocated after the 2005 hurricane Stan gets organized to produce and sell fair-trade handicrafts.

2009-09. Barrio La Union Leader Killed by CGN’s Security Agents in El Estor

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Adolfo Ich Chamán, community leader of CGN-evicted Barrio La Union, is murdered by mining company’s security personnel.

2009-08. Nueva Linda: 5 Years Seeking Justice

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Members of Justice For Nueva Linda mark their 5th year living along the shoulder of the Retalhuleu-Champerico highway, Guatemala, waiting for justice.

2009-07. Tragedy at Toncontin: Army Shoots and Kills Protesters

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Security forces shoot and kill protesters.

2009-07. Mel, Our Friend, the People are with You!

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Days after the coup d’etat against President Zelaya, thousands protest in Tegucigalpa.

2009-06. From Memory to Resistance: 10th Anniversary of HIJOS

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Celebrating the wartime victims and martyrs. Guatemala City.

2009-05. San Miguel Ixtahuacan is Waking Up

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Residents from San Miguel Ixtahuacán protest Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in the capital.

2009-03. Scorched Earth: The Rio Negro Massacre at Pak’oxom

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27th anniversary of the massacre carried out to make way for the Chixoy hydro-electric project.