August 9 was the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. In Guatemala, Indigenous groups and organizations around the country commemorated this event by shutting down all the major highways in the country with organized demonstrations. The demonstrations took place to demand that the rights of Indigenous communities be respected. Indigenous organizations around the country coordinated efforts so that the demands listed at each protest were the same.
On August 11, 2013, Radio Ixchel, one of the most successful community radio stations in our Guatemalan community radio network, is celebrating 10 years on the air. Radio Ixchel is located in Sumpango, Sacatepéquez, a quaint municipality located about 45 minutes from the nation’s capital, Guatemala City. The station is located at one of the highest points in this hilly village, allowing it to broadcast to the entire 45,000 inhabitants of Sumpango.
In order to resolve the conflict generated by the installation of the Spanish company Hidro Santa Cruz’s Cambalam I Hydroelectric Project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Guatemala, the organized civil society, groups related to the company, and government representatives intend to hold dialogues mediated by Catholic Bishop Álvaro Ramazzinni, a long-time supporter of communities’ rights in conflicts with foreign companies and the government.
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En este momento, tenemos desarrollos nuevos y emocionantes en nuestro Programa de la Radio Comunitaria. Hemos recibido tres subvenciones para hacer tres nuevos proyectos, las cuales van a proporcionar nuevas programaciones a las radios en nuestra red, fortalecer las conexiones entre las radios, mejorar sus programas, y ampliar nuestra red para incluir emisoras en Belice y en El Salvador.
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Cultural Survival’s Community Radio Program in Guatemala is looking forward to some very exciting new developments at this moment. We have received three new grants for three new projects that will provide new programming for the radio stations in our network, strengthen relationships and improve programming for the radio stations, and expand our network to include radio stations in Belize and El Salvador.
A veces un documental cree historia, más allá que solo documentarlo. Así es el caso con “Granito de Arena” (“Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”), el documental increíble que ayudó a condenar Ríos Montt en Guatemala por genocidio. En parte thriller política, en parte memorias, el documental nos transporta al pasado por una historia macabra e inolvidable del genocidio en Guatemala contra las Mayas indígenas, perpetrado por el anterior presidente Ríos Montt.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
