Green agriculture in Guatemala is excited about some of the conservation efforts in the Peten - it just seems so out of whack compared to the national story.
In The Globe and Mail, Campbell Clark writes that Guatemala ties drug policy to investment, security – and pragmatism. It might be the right policy but I'm still skeptical about President Perez Molina's support for decriminalization given that he (1) never mentioned drug reform during his mano dura campaign, (2) shocked those around him when he announced that Guatemala should consider decriminalization and only then sent his advisers to different think tanks to figure out what that meant, and (3) is relying on people, like Gustavo Herrera, that he once tied to drug trafficking to represent his administration on the selection of judges.
NISGUA says "No Impunity! No Amnesty!": Organizations react to news of CC ruling.Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that the law has anything to do with whether the Constitutional Court encourages a lower court to apply amnesty to Efrain Rios Montt or whether he actually returns to trial next year.The Court will find some reason, outlandish or not, to accomplish what they want politically. Obviously not the same but I keep thinking about John Roberts' opinion on the health care law that was found constitutional because levying penalties on those who don't purchase insurance could be considered a tax and thus was proper under the taxing clause.
Now this is the foreign meddling that the Guatemalan government supports - Peter Teffer looks at Unexpected love for the European Union... in Central America.
Finally, Mark Tran has Guatemala remembers conflict victims as new battles ignite over resources. In this article, he takes a look at earlier massacres in Rabinal northeast of the capital and recent conflict in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, northwest of the capital.
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