ALERT concerning threats and intimidation against members of UDEFEGUA
Dear Sir/Madam,
Recommendations to the Council of the European Union regarding Guatemala
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Guatemala: Alert on extreme vulnerability of democratic institutions and increased risk of attacks and threats
The political and social instability of Guatemala has grown worse with the murder of Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg on 10 May and the broadcast the next day of a video in which he accuses high-level government officials of plotting his assassination, including President Álvaro Colom and his wife. He accuses the latter of being the intellectual authors of his murder, or at least of authorizing it, in order to cover up other alleged killings and acts of corruption at a bank which manages a large amount of State funds.
URGENT: International Community express preocupation over impunity in Guatemala
Ante la crisis generada por el asesinato del abogado Sr. Rosenberg, la comunidad internacional hace un llamado a la investigación de los hechos, al respeto a la institucionalidad y apoyar a la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (CICIG).
Murder of Armando Donaldo Sanchez denounced
Campesino leaders from various organisations (CUC, CNOC, Waquib Aquib Kei, CLOC and Via Campesina), in a press conference in the offices of the Committee of Campesino Unity of Coatepeque, strongly denounced the murder of the lawyer and defender of street traders, Armando Donaldo Sanchez.