16.11.2016 - 21:58 [ teleSUR ]

Guatemalan Activist‘s Murder Sparks Alarm over Human Rights Crisis

Jeremy Barrios worked for a prominent human rights and environmental activist who has survived at least one assassination attempt.
The recent murder of a Guatemalan human rights defender has cast a sombre shadow over social movements, signaling the increasingly hostile and too often fatally dangerous environment faced by human rights workers in the Central American country, international organizations warned Wednesday.