Kilometer 207. Highway to Champerico, Retalhuleu, Guatemala.
September 1-2, 2007.
Issue: Impunity / Land / Society
September 1-2, 2007.
Issue: Impunity / Land / Society
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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All Photography & Text by:
- James Rodríguez
- Independent documentary photographer based in Guatemala. Any comments or interest in publishing, please contact me at james@mimundo.org
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Photo Essay Archive:
2009:
- GUA: Migration and Cultural Syncretism: Patron Saint Day in Todos Santos Cuchumatán
- GUA: Xeabaj II: Beneath the Rock and the Storm
- GUA: Barrio La Union Leader Killed by CGN's Security Agents in El Estor
- GUA: Nueva Linda: 5 Years Seeking Justice
- HON: Tragedy at Toncontin: Army Shoots and Kills Protesters
- HON: Mel, Our Friend, the People are with You!
- GUA: From Memory to Resistance: 10th Anniversary of HIJOS
- GUA: San Miguel Ixtahuacan is Waking Up
- GUA: Rosenberg Video Unleashes Political Crisis and Deepens Social Division
- GUA: HIJOS: Public Poster Campaigns
- GUA: Scorched Earth: The Rio Negro Massacre at Pak'oxom (Chixoy, 1 of 2)
- GUA: The Great Kawinal: A City Submerged (Chixoy, 2 of 2)
- GUA: Mining Resistance Continues in El Estor: Barrio La Union
2008:
- GUA: Mining in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: Conflict and Criminalization
- GUA: Americas Social Forum Guatemala 2008 (ASF, 1 of 2)
- GUA: Americas Social Forum: MiMundo.org Photo Exhibit (ASF, 2 of 2)
- GUA-CAN: Water Tribunal Condemns Goldcorp... Again
- GUA: Lake Izabal: Majestic Life Source Flowing Towards its Death
- HON: Garifuna Resistance against Mega-Tourism in Tela Bay
- GUA: Never Again a Military Parade
- GUA-ELSAL-HON-NIC: Metal Mining in Central America: Pain and Resistance (Book)
- GUA: Ambush-Protest at Mejia Victores' Home
- GUA: Monsignor Gerardi: 10 Years of Martyrdom
- GUA: Grand Peasant March: 30 years of the CUC (CUC, 1 of 2)
- GUA: Grand Peasant March: Faces and Details (CUC, 2 of 2)
- GUA: Crisis along the Rio Dulce: The Death of Mario Caal
- GUA: Procession of the Laying Christ of the Calvary
- GUA: Sipakapa: Defending Our Territory from Plunder
- GUA: Chupina Barahona, Death Does Not Absolve You
- GUA: Ancestral Cuisine: The Kak'ik
- GUA: Spanish Embassy Massacre: 28th Anniversary
- GUA: Day of Global Action: Social Forum of the Americas
- GUA: Savia: School of Ecological Thought
- GUA: Welcome to Guatemala Comrade Hugo Chavez
2007:
- GUA: Christmas in Nueva Linda
- GUA: Letter to a Forcibly Disappeared Son
- GUA: Urban Art: Graffiti and Murals (HIJOS, 1 of 3)
- GUA: The Mural "Liberty" (HIJOS, 2 of 3)
- GUA: No More Military Impunity (HIJOS 3 of 3)
- GUA: Celebrating the Assumption of Mary
- GUA: Day of the Dead in Comalapa
- CAN-GUA: Exhibits in November
- CAN: Toronto Exhibit
- GUA: Plan de Sanchez: Never Again such Savagery
- GUA: Visit to the Forensic Anthropological Foundation
- GUA: Here in Sipakapa, the People Won (Sipakapa, 1 of 2)
- GUA: Sipakapa: Images and Faces (Sipakapa, 2 of 2)
- GUA: Nueva Linda: Along the Side of the Road (NL, 1 of 2)
- GUA: The People of Nueva Linda (NL, 2 of 2)
- GUA: The Chixoy Hydro-electrical Dam and Genocide in Rio Negro
- GUA: El Estor Evictions: 6 months later (El Estor, 1 of 2)
- GUA: We are Not Squatters, We are Natives of Guatemala (El Estor, 2 of 2)
- GUA: Gold Mine Worsens Social Tensions
- GUA: Offensive for Remembrance: Where are the Disappeared? (HIJOS, 1 of 3)
- GUA: The March for Remembrance Halts the Military Parade (HIJOS, 2 of 2)
- GUA: The March for Remembrance: Faces in the Crowd (HIJOS, 3 of 3)
- GUA: Sipakapa's Legacy
- CAN: Goldcorp, No More Mining Terrorism
- GUA: Bush, Murderer, Out of our Nation
- GUA: Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Spreads Misinformation About Mining Issues
- GUA: The Resistance Fair (Ixcan, 1 of 2)
- GUA: The People of Primavera (Ixcan, 2 of 2)
- GUA: The Martyrs are Home (Chajul, 1 of 2)
- GUA: The People of Xaxmoxan (Chajul, 2 of 2)
- GUA: Sign of the Times
- GUA: Eviction despite Dubious Legal Status (El Estor, 5 of 5)
- GUA: Barrio La Revolucion Burns (El Estor, 4 of 5)
- GUA: Canadian Mining Company Orders Eviction of Indigenous Communities (El Estor, 3 of 5)
2006:
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External Links:
- Albedrio (Spanish only)
- Breaking the Silence Network
- Business & Human Rights Resource Center
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- Dawn Paley: Reporter Zero
- Indymedia - Guatemala
- Latin America Press
- NISGUA (Network In Solidarity with the People of Guatemala)
- Pastoral Commisson Peace and Ecology (COPAE)
- Rights Action
- The Indypendent - NY
- Upside Down World
Cover of Este País Magazine (Guatemala) Feb. 2007
Books For Sale:
The El Estor Evictions
A compilation of photo-essays relating the events which took place in the municipality of El Estor, Guatemala, during the months of December 2006 and January 2007. At the orders of a Canadian mining company, five Maya Q’eqchi’ indigenous communities were violently evicted from what they claim to be ancestral lands; April 2007, 40 pages.
Nuestro Mundo - Our World
A photographic tribute to our beautiful planet. The collection of photographs, taken between 1999 and 2006, spans over 35 countries and all five continents; Nov. 2006, 80 pages.
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- CGN (14)
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- Muralism (2)
- Nueva Linda (5)
- ODHAG (1)
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- Otto Perez Molina (1)
- Panzos (10)
- Plan de Sanchez (1)
- Primavera del Ixcan (2)
- Procession (2)
- Quetzaltenango (1)
- Quiche (4)
- Rabinal (2)
- Rio Dulce (1)
- Rio Negro (2)
- Rios Montt (3)
- Rodrigo Rosenberg (1)
- Rosalina Tuyuc (3)
- San Juan Sacatepequez (1)
- San Marcos (6)
- San Martin Mine (2)
- San Miguel Ixtahuacan (4)
- Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan (1)
- Savia (1)
- Semilla Urbana (1)
- Sipakapa (7)
- Skye Resources (12)
- Social Forum (3)
- Solola (3)
- Spanish Embassy (3)
- Tela (1)
- Tema Bautista (4)
- The Disappeared (9)
- Todos Santos Cuchumatan (1)
- Urban Art (4)
- URNG (2)
- USA (1)
- USAC (4)
- Veterans for Peace (1)
- Video (1)
- Xeabaj II (1)
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