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Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (in Spanish: Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) (initials: URNG) was a guerilla movement which emerged in Guatemala in 1982. But gradually, between 1986 and 1996, the Guatemalan army and government were drawn into a peace process with the United Nations as moderator and verifier of the process, and other international actors as key players, with major concessions from both sides. Obligations were imposed on the Guatemalan government, including significant constitutional reforms, which were to be internationally binding and be verified by the UN. sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/guatemalan_national_revolutionary_unity   (387 words)

Guatemala - Political Flags The flag of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) uses the national colours. Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) Founding Philosophy: The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) was an umbrella organization (guerrilla movement) that emerged in Guatemala in 1982. www.flagspot.com /flags/gt}.html   (523 words)

The Militant - 1/20/97 -- `Peace' Accord Is Signed In Guatemala In April, the head of the Immediate Reaction Force of the Guatemalan National Police was killed in an ambush by peasants who were resisting government attempts to remove them from land they had taken. With some 60 percent of the Guatemalan population belonging to one of the 23 Mayan tribes in a country of 10.7 million, the Indian population is by far the most exploited and discriminated sector of society. The 45,000-strong Guatemalan army is now "redefined," with the option to have a civilian minister of defense as its head. www.themilitant.com /1997/613/613_11.html   (1334 words)

Dec. 1999: Guatemala: FRG wins elections Portillo's 17 point margin of victory over his main opponent Oscar Berger, candidate of the ruling National Advancement Party (PAN), was a decisive repudiation of the government of President Alvaro Arzú and the PAN which has failed to improve the social and economic conditions for the majority of Guatemalans after 34 years of civil war. Guatemalan electoral law requires a presidential candidate to receive at least 50 percent of the vote or face a run-off against the second leading vote-getter. Guatemalans also believe the Arzú administration to be corrupt and indifferent to their problems. www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_19/No_6/article_1.htm   (1257 words)

Encyclopedia: History of Guatemala Controlled by the anti-corruption parties — the populist Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) headed by Ríos Montt, and the center-right National Advancement Party (PAN) — the new Congress began to move away from the corruption that characterized its predecessors. Guatemalan Party of Labour The Guatemalan Party of Labour (Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo) was a Communist party in Guatemala. National elections for president, Congress, and municipal offices were held in November 1995. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Guatemala   (6307 words)

Jennifer Harbury Letters & Information The four representatives of Guatemalan society are Gert Rosenthal of U.N. Economic Commission on Latin America (CEPAL), Rodolfo Orozco of the Federation of Guatemalan Cooperatives (CONFECOOP), banker Manuel Eduardo Gonzalez Castillo -- son of the president of the National Coffee Association (ANACAFE), and former Deputy Minister of Education Manuel Salazar Tesaguic. Guatemalan women took a first step today toward guaranteeing that the peace accords between the government and the nation's rebels are made a reality. They became the first Guatemalans to be sentenced according to a 1995 law that raised the penalty for kidnapping from 15 years in prison to death. www.eecs.umich.edu /~pavr/harbury/archive/1997/cwb06_97.html   (2646 words)

Guatemalan Colonel’s Family Established Persecution by Rebels, Court Rules A peace accord between the Guatemalan government and guerrillas who threatened an asylum-seeker and her son and killed her husband did not so alter conditions in the Central American nation that asylum here was no longer available, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The court ruled that the petitioners—the wife and son of a Guatemalan army colonel who played a key role in combating rebels—have established a well-founded fear of persecution at the hands of the anti-government forces since the group that killed Hector Hugo Cordon also kidnapped and stabbed Rios and tried to abduct Jordan-Rios. Guatemalan Colonel’s Family Established Persecution by Rebels, Court Rules www.metnews.com /articles/rios050202.htm   (467 words)

Rights Action > Articles > May They Rest in Peace After three years of steady United Nations mediated peace negotiations, the Guatemalan government and the URNG (National Revolutionary Guatemalan Unity) signed, on December 29, 1996, the final peace accord, ending 35 years of armed conflict. never came close to overthrowing the Guatemalan military, they were able to oblige the government to negotiate a series of Accords that, in their totality, address the wide range of historical and contemporary injustices that characterize Guatemala. Even as there is little hope that justice will be done for the crimes of the past, or that the surviving victims will be compensated for their loss and suffering, there are signs of hope, that present themselves as challenges for people and organizations interested in international human rights. www.rightsaction.org /articles/0197.htm   (1639 words)

Recommendations On the basis of these considerations, and considering the appeal for forgiveness made by the President of the Republic on 29 December 1998, and the partial appeal for forgiveness made by the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity on 19 February 1998, the CEH recommends: That the commemorations and ceremonies for the victims of the armed confrontation take into consideration the multicultural nature of the Guatemalan nation, to which end the Government and local authorities should promote and authorise the raising of monuments and the creation of communal cemeteries in accordance with the forms of Mayan collective memory. That the Guatemalan State and society commemorate the victims by means of various activities carried out in co-ordination with organisations from civil society, among which it is essential that the following measures be included: shr.aaas.org /guatemala/ceh/report/english/recs2.html   (312 words)

Lier: No Justice, But Peace The military may well have home-field advantage in the Guatemalan court system, because the judiciary is known not only for its corruption and vulnerability to intimidation, but for a lack of background in applicable human rights law, say lawyers and activists. As one Guatemalan confided, this kind of openness has gotten people killed in the past, and it’s too early to know whether it is safe. The peace accord presents a challenge for Guatemalans who want to change the way their country is run. www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/mar97lier.htm   (2175 words)

americas.org - Government, Rebels Agree T he Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) movement and the government signed an “Accord on Socioeconomic Issues and the Agrarian Situation” May 6 in Mexico City. But the Advisory Assembly of the Displaced Populations and the National Coalition of Campesino Organizations expressed concern that the accord did not specify a date for setting up the land registry. The agreement, the fourth since 1991, continues a process that could end the nation’s 35-year-old civil war, which has killed more than 150,000 Guatemalans. www.americas.org /item_12517   (223 words)

The Guatemalan Peace Accords of 1996 The state of war between the government of Guatemala and guerrilla movements grouped in the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) ended on Dec. 29. The halt to offensive military operations announced last week by the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the government engendered great optimism. The text, in English, of the September 19, 1996 peace accord between the Guatemalan government and the URNG resistance (48 Kb). www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/index-cbb.html   (342 words)

IDEX : Countries : Guatemala Guatemala is still recovering from a 36-year civil war in which the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) guerillas fought to overthrow successive U.S.-backed military regimes. In contrast, of the poorest 10% of the population, 75% are women. Inequality in the country is at an extreme: those in the top 10% income bracket — of which almost 75% are men — hold over 50% of the nation’s wealth. www.idex.org /country.php?country_id=6   (690 words)

The Guatemalan Peace Process: Advocates and Guarantors Crucially for the integrity and sustainability of reconstruction, ten per cent of the national budget allocated to the municipalities is funding training of local authorities and the promotion of dialogue within and between these authorities and the diverse communities they serve. In addition, the UN Inter-agency Commission in Guatemalan, created to improve co-ordination in assistance to the different peace agreements, could also contribute its own resources to facilitate education in social monitoring and political intervention, and to broaden the range of organisations overseeing compliance with the accords. In training the staff of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the judiciary and the National Police Force, it hopes to foster a favourable environment for constructive dialogue between local populations and the army, the executive and the judiciary. www.c-r.org /accord/guat/accord2/prado.shtml   (4171 words)

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Peace negotiations with all major insurgent groups were concluded and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) put down its arms and re-formed itself as a legal political party. Between 1954 and 1996, the Guatemalan government was embroiled with an active movement to disrupt their rule. Due to the Guatemalan government's increasingly autocratic rule over the next six years, a group of military officers attempted a 1960 coup but failed. www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=224   (528 words)

Appeals against impunity (1997) On the one hand, a final peace settlement was signed on 29 December 1996 between the Government and the armed opposition, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), ending the longest running internal armed conflict in Central America [1]. However, the Guatemalan government is responsible for all human rights violations, past or present, committed by state agents and for ensuring that the perpetrators are made accountable for their actions. In some cases the perpetrators of these crimes are members of the National Police, private security guards [5] or members of vigilante groups acting with the complicity of the security forces. www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/guatemal/appeals/intro.htm   (2296 words)

Inter Press Service News Agency The state-run National Coordinating Agency for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women (Conaprevi) is provided with no funding whatsoever to combat gender-based violence, according to the non-governmental Guatemalan Network to Stop Violence Against Women. In Costa Rica, although the number of women murdered decreased from 29 in 2003 to 19 in 2004, the National Institute for Women is still unhappy that a bill to criminalise violence against women, which it sponsored, has yet to be voted upon by Congress after a five-year wait. For his part, Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales accused the Ministry of the Interior of being completely incapable of providing adequate security for the country's citizens, and especially its women. www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=26788   (1201 words)

americas.org - Cease-Fire Sparks Widespread Hope Despite continuing disagreements on agrarian and socioeconomic issues, the Guatemalan government and the insurgent Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) movement are optimistic that a peace accord could be signed September 15, the nation’s independence day. At least 70 percent of the Guatemalan population lives below the poverty line because fewer than 2 percent of landowners hold 65 percent of the arable land. On March 20, both sides agreed to the nation’s first cease-fire in 36 years. www.americas.org /item_12548   (231 words)

Jennifer Harbury Letters & Information The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) declared a unilateral ceasefire from November 1 to 13 to contribute to the peaceful celebration of the general elections scheduled for November 12. The demonstrators, assisted by the National Indigenous and Peasant Coordination (CONIC), told members of Congress that the land is of public utility and necessity, because of which it should be expropriated. Noticias de Guatemala, 20-08-95 The assembly of the Revolutionary Party (PR) to take place this morning has been described as decisive for the future of the democratic left, since the party is attempting to change its name so as to officially represent the New Guatemala Democratic Front (FDNG) in the coming general elections. www.eecs.umich.edu /~pavr/harbury/archive/1995/ng082595.html   (2976 words)

peten.html The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, the group of indigenous peoples who waged the 31 year campaign against the Guatemalan government and military, have called for dramatic reforms to Article 203 of the Guatemalan Constitution. These accords signed by the National Vanguard Party and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity call for measures to: end racial discrimination against native peoples, reduce the power and size of the military (making the military fall entirely under civilian control), greatly alter the judicial and police system, and hold those individuals accountable for wartime atrocities. Today, 85 percent of the nation's land is owned by less than 2 percent of the population; 80 percent of the Guatemalan population lives in extreme poverty - with an estimated 50-60 percent of these extremely poor people being indigenous. www.umich.edu /~snre492/peten.html   (1310 words)

GUATEMALA: UN Mission Wraps Up û Without Fulfilling Its Goals By José Eduardo Mora Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, who took office in January, pledged to redouble efforts to meet the objectives laid out by the peace agreements, after progress towards that end virtually dragged to a halt under his predecessor, Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004). Among the biggest pending challenges that ”require special attention” are the fight against racism and discrimination, the consolidation of a state of law, and the eradication of poverty, since Guatemala remains one of the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin America, he said. SAN JOSE, Nov 15 (IPS) - The United Nations mission in Guatemala comes to an end on Wednesday, even though its assignment of ensuring compliance with the peace accords signed after 36 years of civil war has not been completed, analysts and activists told IPS. www.chasque.apc.org /ips_eng/notas/2004/11/15/16:44:30.html   (1017 words)

Annual Report 1997 - Chapter V - Guatemala According to the Government, during 1997, "3,603 refugees returned to Guatemalan territory, making a total of 36,559 returnees from 1986 to 1997." The Government reported that it was in the process of negotiations with 19 blocks of refugees, representing approximately 2,600 families, with the expectation of their return before mid-1998. The Government has reported that the national courts have denied petitions seeking to "extinguish criminal responsibility for those responsible for the murder of north american citizen Michael Devine, the military agents accused of ordering the murder of Myrna Mack, and those accused in the case of Jorge Carpio. The new Code of Childhood and Youth, adopted in 1996 to bring national legislation into harmony with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, has yet to enter into force, Congress having approved a six month suspension of its initiation in October of 1997. www.cidh.org /annualrep/97eng/chap.5b.htm   (5839 words)

AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS Leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) - now reconstituted as the country's de facto civil opposition - said the danger to the peace accord lay in official failure to confront vested economic and political interests. On 22 April last, former Guatemalan guerrillas warned that the country's 18 month-old peace accord was in danger of collapse. The URNG said this failure was in direct contravention of commitments contained in the December 1996 agreement. republican-news.org /archive/1998/April30/30worl.html   (1220 words)

PRESS RELEASE He injected dynamism to the peace negotiations process, and this included a meeting that he had with the commanders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity a few weeks after he became the head of the Executive branch of the government. December 29, 1996 becomes a historic date with the signature of the Final Peace Accord between the Government of the Republic and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity -URNG- to put end to the internal armed confrontation. The peace process in Guatemala was discussed in Central American Presidential Summit held in the Guatemalan village of Esquipulas in August 1987, during the Cerezo Administration. www.udel.edu /leipzig/texts2/paxguat.htm   (767 words)

Emerging Democracies Forum from Yemen The country will be holding general elections on November 7, 1999, the first since the Government of Guatemala and the former guerrilla movement, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), signed the UN-sponsored Peace Accords in December 1996. Key advances have been made in the widening of citizen participation, establishment of a new National Civilian Police and unprecedented dialogue on indigenous issues and macroeconomic stability. The agreement concluded a civil war of nearly three decades and a seven-year peace negotiation process. www.ndi.org /EDF/guatemala.html   (236 words)

Guatemala: country profile The Republican Guatemalan Front (FRG); the National Progress Party (NPP), conservative; the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (UNRG), a coalition of different armed groups, extreme-left; the Guatemalan Christian Democracy (CDG). Non-parliamentary organizations: Solidarity Action Movement (MAS) and National Liberation Movement (MLN) of an authoritarian tendency; New Guatemala Democratic Front; National Centrist Union (UCN); Social Democratic Party (PSD); Democratic Union (UD); Civil Society Assembly. Spanish is official but most of the population speak one of the 22 Maya dialects. gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_profile.cfm?Id=40   (377 words)

FHRG - Who We Are On December 29, 1996, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the Guatemalan government signed a global Peace Accord, seeking to resolve the problems generated by the internal armed conflict in Guatemala. We also work at a national level in the United States, coordinating with organizations such as the Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC/USA), the Coalition for the Missing, the National Network Atanacio Tzul and the United Representation of Guatemalan Opposition (RUOG). Carlos was brought to an intensive care unit in a Guatemalan hospital where he was operated on four times. www.fhrg.org /history.htm   (993 words)

Guatemala: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns Guatemala: Discrimination, Incompetence in Murder Investigations of Guatemalan Women Fuels Impunity, Amnesty International Charges Call for Investigation into Murder of Guatemalan Women Guatemala: Guatemala: Suspension of evictions and genuine agrarian reform policies are the keys to solving land conflicts amnestyusa.org /countries/guatemala/document.do?...   (141 words)

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Leftist guerrillas of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) attacked a clinic run by American missionaries in Sayaxche. Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) attacked Religious Figures/Institutions target (Sept. 1, 1990, Guatemala) Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) attacked Military target (June 24, 1989, Guatemala) www.tkb.org /Incident.jsp?incID=6266   (231 words)

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