Since September 4, 2019, 22 municipalities in Eastern Guatemala have been militarized by right-wing president Jimmy Morales after declaring a “state of siege” or martial law in the largely Indigenous region of the country, for a minimum period of 30 days. A state of siege suspends civil rights including  freedom of action, freedom of movement, right to assembly and demonstration, carrying of arms, and supports legal detentions and interrogations of detainees and prisoners, putting at risk the freedom, security, life and peace of the inhabitants of the affected areas.

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Agnes Portalewska
agnes@cs.org, 617-441-5400 
 

Para lanzamiento inmediato
Contacto: Agnes Portalewska
agnes@cs.org, 617-441-5400  

Estimada comunidad de Cultural Survival:
 
En nombre de la Junta Directiva, me complace anunciar que Galina Angarova se unirá a Cultural Survival como nuestra nueva Directora Ejecutiva, con sede en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco.  

Dear Cultural Survival community,

On behalf of the board of directors, I am delighted to announce that Galina Angarova will be joining Cultural Survival as our new executive director. She will be based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
 

Reposted with permission from First Peoples Worldwide 

As currently written, EP4 does not set forth a strong risk management framework to provide a dynamic starting place from which [financial institutions] can build better and more responsive social and environmental screening processes… the Equator Principles – if not further revised – can no longer be relied upon as a proxy for responsible and sustainable project finance.

By Chris Swartz

On August 19 and 20, 2019, the United States saw its first ever Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. There, Tribal leaders and Native organizers, including Native youth, were able to ask the nine candidates questions concerning topics such as the climate crisis, missing and murdered Indigenous women, and continuous government neglect of Native American peoples. Each candidate was individually questioned by a panel of six to eight panelists, in front of an audience of members from different Tribal Nations across the country.
 

La ausencia de medios de comunicación en manos de Pueblos Indígenas, ha conllevado a la perdida de varios elementos de la cultura, por ello la asimilación es uno de los caminos de la juventud y la población en general ante esta situación.

Un breve monitoreo de la radio y la televisión en la región Ixil en Quiché, demuestra que la mayoría de estos medios son de tendencia religiosa, los cuales cierran o limitan espacios a organizaciones que promueven los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas.

The underrepresentation and the absence of media in the hands of Indigenous Peoples has led to the loss of various elements of cultures over the years and has lead to assimilation, especially of youth. After a brief screening of radio and television in the Ixil region of Guatemala, one realizes that the majority of the stations are religious and tend to limit space to organizations that promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

***Radio San Juan is a 2018 Community Media Grants Project Partner.

Por John McPhaul

Del 8 al 10 de agosto de 2019, los líderes indígenas celebraron el primer Congreso Nacional Indígena (CONGRESO INDÍGENA NACIONAL - COIN) en San Antonio de Belén, en las afueras de San José, Costa Rica, donde siete de las ocho naciones indígenas costarricenses se reunieron para discutir los desafíos que enfrentan la población indígena en el país.