Call for Solidarity with the Raymundo Family
January 10, 2015: This week we are asking for solidarity with the Raymundo orphans. Their parents Josefa Solis Raymundo (died December 4, 2013) and Juan Brito Raymundo (died March 20, 2014) were community leaders at our partner community Sajbuta. The entire community is in a struggle against extreme poverty and malnutrition, but they have made a special request to us to support the children so that they can eat and attend school.
Please make a contribution of any size - all funds (other than bank fees) will go directly to support the Raymundo children
Pablo Sacrab hearing suspended yet again. We demand freedom for all indigenous and peasant political prisoners!
January 29 2015: Q'eqchi' peasant leader Pablo Sacrab has been in prison for three and a half years. At times he has been denied food and medicine. We are greatly disturbed that once again his hearing has been delayed and he will be forced to remain in prison on fraudulent charges. We will continue our nonviolent fight for freedom for Sacrab, whose children are suffering from malnutrition while he is unjustly incarcerated. Click here to donate and help us continue to fulfill our commitment to meet with and provide important moral and financial support for political prisoners at least once a month.
On November 8, 2013, Carlos Guitz was shot in the back and paralyzed. GSP donors have supported therapy, but we need more contributions to his recovery. Unlike several months ago, Guitz now has sensation in most of his body. He also recently has been able to move his toes for the first time. We condemn continued attacks against Guitz's home community of Monte Olivo, as well as other neighboring q'eqchi' communities. We call for the government to immediately arrest the intellectual authors of this violence, which has included the murder of 13 year-old Ageo Isaac Maas Guitz and 11-year-old David Estuardo Pacay Mass. We believe that those responsible include the company Hidro Santa Rita SA and the wealthy land owner David Leonel Ponce Ramirez. We condemn the government of Guatemala for building a military base in the community of Monte Olivo in order to facilitate the theft of their lands.