03 of March 2010
Source: Guatemala Solidarity Network
Recently, Barbara Schieber in The Guatemala Times, published a piece which again highlighted the contradictions in Guatemala around state responsibility and state ability to tackle the endemic violence affecting that country.
The Association of Bi-national Chambers of Commerce (ASCABI) has requested that the Guatemalan government announces a state of prevention (Un Estado de Prevención is its rightful term and doesn’t translate easily into English). It is, in fact, a decree suspending particular and named constitutional rights. The article states that the limitations to civil and human rights include the following: the right to organise meetings, the right to public demonstrations, and includes state censorship of the media. What is exercising the minds of ASCABI is the level of violence in the country and its effect on their ability to make money, sorry, to provide a better environment for foreign investment.
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Source: Guatemala Solidarity Network
Recently, Barbara Schieber in The Guatemala Times, published a piece which again highlighted the contradictions in Guatemala around state responsibility and state ability to tackle the endemic violence affecting that country.
The Association of Bi-national Chambers of Commerce (ASCABI) has requested that the Guatemalan government announces a state of prevention (Un Estado de Prevención is its rightful term and doesn’t translate easily into English). It is, in fact, a decree suspending particular and named constitutional rights. The article states that the limitations to civil and human rights include the following: the right to organise meetings, the right to public demonstrations, and includes state censorship of the media. What is exercising the minds of ASCABI is the level of violence in the country and its effect on their ability to make money, sorry, to provide a better environment for foreign investment.
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