PBI-Mexico accompanies ASMAC and CONTEC at Meeting of Indigenous Communities in Coloradas de la Virgen, Chihuahua
Gustavo Petro wins presidential election in Colombia
Photo by Fernando Vergara/ Associated Press.
On June 19, Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez won the second-round vote to become Colombia’s next president and vice-president.
They won with 50.49 percent of the vote over the right-wing populist millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernández (who won 47.25 percent of the vote).
Petro on open-pit mines and fracking
PBI-Colombia highlights lack of adequate progress in the investigations into state violence during the national strike
PBI-Guatemala accompanies the CCR at meeting with the Governor of Retalhuleu about the situation in the village of Los Pajales
On June 21, PBI-Guatemala posted:
The power of words: Luis de Lión’s Legacy and the Diario Militar – Death Squad Dossier – Case
This article was written by the Peace Brigades International - Guatemala Project
UN High Commissioner notes UK, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia and Kenya in her address to Human Rights Council
Photo by Valentin Flauraud/EPA
PBI-Colombia accompanies Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation at meeting with Embassies in Bogota
Meeting with representatives of the Embassies of France, Sweden, the European Union, and Ireland.