Guatemala

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2018

• Women and plantations: When violence becomes invisible

• Guatemala and Colombia: Women facing oil palm plantations

2016

• Semuc Champey, Guatemala: Where the River Hides

• REDD+ in Central America: it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission

• “Reasons for Taking Legal Action”: New Resistance Movements to Defend Guatemalan Indigenous Communities’ Heritage

2015

• Guatemala: neighborhood action against dams that deprive communities of water

• Guatemala: Grassroots organizations criticise palm oil roundtable consultation  

2014

• Coastal forests threatened by tourism

2013

• River in Guatemala “grabbed” by oil palm and sugar cane plantation owners

• Opposition to mining in Guatemala leads to repression and death

• Guatemala: The silent advance of industrial rubber tree plantations

• Guatemala: Oil palm plantations cause new displacement of rural communities

• Guatemala: Isla Chicales – public lands should be managed by communities

2011

• Iron mining threatens Guatemalan mangroves

2010

• Meso-America: Communities issue statement on protected areas

• Guatemala: Oil palm and sugar cane monoculture plantations hurt local communities on the Coyolate River

• Guatemala: minería de hierro amenaza manglares del Pacífico

• Guatemala: Don’t sell forests, water and the future for oil!

2009

• Guatemala: sugarcane’s bitter consequences

• Guatemala: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations

2008

• Guatemala: Agrofuels cause deforestation and displacement

2002

• Guatemala: Opposition to highway project threatening forest area

• Guatemala: Champerico fisherfolk win over shrimp farm firm Camarsa

2001

• Guatemala: Shrimp-farm generates violence and death

• Guatemala: Security for shrimps, insecurity for the local population

• Guatemala: A dam and the massacre of 400 people

2000

• Guatemala: Community forest concession initiative at Petén questioned

• Guatemala: Campaign against oil activities in Maya Biosphere Reserve

• Guatemala: Actions to defend natural reserve against oil exploitation

1999

• Guatemala: Maya Biosphere Reserve under threat

1998

• Guatemala: communities take care of forests

1997

• US logging company leaves Guatemala

Books and Briefings

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  Monocultivos de árboles en América Latina: situación laboral y destrucción de economías locales

  Posted on August 29, 2014

  Only available in Spanish By the WRM and RECOMA Download as pdf here Las empresas que promueven plantaciones en gran escala de monocultivos de eucaliptos, pinos y palma aceitera, siguen usando la generación de empleo como uno de los...

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Other Relevant Information

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  Palm Oil’s Toxic Legacy in Sayaxché, Guatemala – by FoE

  Posted on September 15, 2016

  Saul Paau, a Q’eqchi’ Mayan community leader, describes the environmental and social devastation wrought by the palm oil industry in the Petén region of Guatemala, with a focus on the 2015 ecocide in the Pasión River associated with...

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  Press Release of the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations, in solidarity with the peoples of Nueva Concepción, Escuintla in their struggle for the liberation of the Madre Vieja River

  Posted on February 16, 2016

  On February 9th and 11th, 2016, over 200 residents of Nueva Concepción, Escuintla, Guatemala, held an action that was historic for their municipality and for many peoples; they freed the Madre Vieja River from several dams that were...

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  Ecocidio en el río La Pasión, Guatemala

  Posted on June 12, 2015

  Only available in Spanish. Comunicado internacional.  Ante los hechos ocurridos  en el río La Pasión, en Sayaxché, Petén, Guatemala en donde se ha registrado la muerte masiva de peces y otras especies en su cauce (se habla de...

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Videos

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  Documental: “Monocultura: La expansión de los monocultivos en América latina”

  Posted on February 20, 2018

  (Only available in Spanish). Documental sobre la expansión de monocultivos de palma aceitera y piña en América Latina, realizado por Aldo Santiago, periodista mexicano independiente, y Claudia Ramos, integrante de la organización Otros Mundos A.C./Amigos de la Tierra México. Duración: 35 minutos. Idioma: Español.

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  Short animation – Let’s define forests by their true meaning

  Posted on February 16, 2011

  Also available in: Afrikaans, Aymara, Catala, Chinese, Dutch, Finish, German, Bosnian, Italian, Maori, Mapuche, Maya Kaqchikel, Maya Popti, Maya Tseltal, Maya Tsotsil, Swedish, Vietnamese and Zulu Following FAO’s criterion for the...

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