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Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Friday. The ...
The Indigenous peoples in Guatemala, also known as Native Guatemalans, are the original inhabitants of Guatemala, predating Spanish colonization.Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan peoples (Achi’, Akatec, Awakatec, Chalchitec, Ch’ortí, Chuj, Itzá, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kaq- chikel, K’iche, Mam, Mopan, Poqomam, Poqomchí, Q’anjob ...
On Friday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Guatemala violated the rights of the Indigenous Q’eqchi’ people to property and consultation by permitting mining on land where ...
The goal of the legislation was to move Guatemala's economy from pseudo-feudalism into capitalism. Although in force for only eighteen months, the law had a major effect on the Guatemalan land-reform movement. [3] Indigenous groups, deprived of land since the Spanish conquest, were major beneficiaries of the decree.
The elites began extracting more labor, revenue and land from the Mayas. [1] In response to the increase aggression from the colonial elites, Maya likewise increase their aggression in rebelling against colonial rule. [1] A series of at least 50 major indigenous riots occurred from 1710 to the year of Guatemalan independence from colonial rule ...
Lawyers for an Indigenous community in eastern Guatemala made arguments before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Wednesday in a case that could have far-reaching implications for Indigenous ...
They are the second-largest ethnic Maya group in Guatemala (after the Kʼicheʼ) and one of the largest and most widespread throughout Central America. [citation needed] Mayans in Guatemala. In Guatemala, the Spanish colonial pattern of keeping the native population legally separate and subservient continued well into the 20th century.
Thousands of indigenous supporters protested in Guatemala City on Monday to defend Guatemala’s president-elect as government prosecutors seek to ban his political party. Many of the protesters ...