| 10/14/01 |
Urgent Action: Guatemalan Terrorists: Military Agents Arrive in US and Threaten Activist -- We are writing to ask for your very urgent assistance and support for Barbara Bocek, a U.S. citizen and human rights activist who is being stalked by Guatemalan military agents right here in the United States as a result of her tireless efforts on behalf of the Guatemalan people. Barbara began receiving death threats last May after her op-ed piece about the Gerardi case was published. (Jennifer Harbury) |
| 6/8/01 |
Guatemalan officers found guilty -- A tribunal on Friday found three military men and a priest guilty of the 1998 slaying of Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi and ordered a criminal probe into three other military officials in the case. (AP) |
| 6/8/01 |
Guatemala: Gerardi trial - justice is possible -- Today's ruling by the Guatemalan judiciary sentencing four people to 30 years in prison for the 1998 murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi gives an encouraging signal that justice can be obtained through the Guatemalan courts, Amnesty International said today. (Amnesty International) |
| 3/10/00 |
Fired CIA Agent To Receive Award -- The former chief of the CIA's Latin American Division, who was fired in 1995 for failing to inform Congress about human rights abuses in Guatemala, will be awarded one of the agency's highest honors this month, according to The Washington Post. |
| 12/15/99 |
CIA/Harbury Case -- In October, 1999, the Inter-American Court sent final transcripts to Jennifer Harbury for review. She and her lawyers filed their final 85-page brief in response. As of now, all parties are awaiting the final decision of the court on the responsibility of the Guatemalan government for the murder of Efrain Bamaca Velásquez. |
| 3/19/99 |
US Army School of the Americas Cited in Guatemalan Truth Commission Report -- The newly-released Guatemalan truth commission report singled out the controversial US Army School of the Americas (SOA) for its counterinsurgency training that "had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed conflict." |
| 2/26/99 |
Guatemalan Army Waged 'Genocide,' New Report Finds -- A truth commission report has concluded that the United States gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed "acts of genocide" against the Mayan people during the most brutal armed conflict in Latin America, Guatemala's 36-year civil war. (NY Times) |
| 2/26/99 |
Guatemalan truth commission condemns army, CIA -- A Guatemalan truth commission said Thursday the army had blood on its hands for most of the atrocities committed in one of Latin America's longest and cruelest civil wars. (Reuters) |
| 2/26/99 |
Report on Guatemalan civil war blasts army's role in massacres -- The Guatemalan army is responsible for the vast majority of the more than 200,000 deaths and disappearances in the country's 36-year civil war, an official truth commission declared Thursday. (AP) |