Politics Innovator: Intercultural Commission of Mejoremos Guate

Conflicts between Guatemalan Indigenous communities and corporations have raged for decades. One tragic example: in the early 1980s, at least 444 members of Maya-Achi communities protesting construction of the Chixoy Dam on the Rio Negro were killed by government troops (a reparations plan was announced in 2014). Yet since 2013, a group of businesspeople and Indigenous political leaders are seeking to bridge their historic divide through the Mejoremos Guate initiative’s Intercultural Affairs Commission.

Mejoremos Guate (Let’s Make...

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