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November 26, 2025


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Ramon Cadena out of jail, for now, in Guatemala!
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After 11 days of relentless campaigning led primarily by family members and human rights activists in Guatemala, Rights Action is pleased to let folks know that Ramon Cadena, widely respected jurist and human rights lawyer, is out of jail and now on ‘home arrest’.

Two of the four malicious criminal charges were dropped, two are still hanging over his head.

Ramon Cadena, Nov. 21, 2025. Photo @ courtesy family member

Moreover, two university students - Christopher Morales and Pedro Ros – were freed from jail after 22 days in prison and are also on home arrest. In total, 27 students from the San Carlos University of Guatemala, along with their legal advisor Ramon Cadena, remain maliciously criminalized as part of the “Toma USAC: Botín Político” case. All were criminalized in 2023 for peacefully protesting corruption at the highest level of the University administration.

Upon release, Ramon expressed gratitude for the support he received, and sadness and anger at the on-going detention of the well-known journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, and of Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, both former leaders of the 48 Cantones Indigenous leadership of Totonicapán. Moreover, Luis is the actual Guatemalan Deputy Minister of Sustainable Development.

“There is nothing else to do but to keep on struggling”, said Ramon.

Jose Ruben Zamora Enemy Number One

In 2023, Hector Silva wrote (reproduced by Rights Action, June 22, 2023 ([link removed]) ) about how Guatemala’s narco-kleptocracy sector continues to annihilate "internal enemies", with Ruben Zamora being enemy number one. A day after the article was published, Ruben Zamora was sentenced to 6 years in jail.

Jose Ruben Zamora, in a Guatemalan court, 3 August 2022. @ EPA-EFE/Esteban Biba

Recent background
Criminalization and lawfare are tools of repression used by Guatemala’s corrupt “traditional elites” that retain control over most institutions of the State and government
Rights Action, Nov.12, 2025 ([link removed])

Rights Action archives
Other crimes against humanity trials ([link removed])

In the U.S. and Canada, follow the work of
* PLATAFORMA CANADA-Guatemaltecos Exiliados por Terrorismo de Estado, [link removed], [link removed]
* NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with People of Guatemala): www.nisgua.org, [link removed], [link removed]
* GHRC (Guatemalan Human Rights Commission): www.ghrc-usa.org, [link removed]
* Breaking the Silence: www.breakingthesilenceblog.com, [link removed], [link removed]

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Change media sources
Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend Democracy Now ([link removed]) , The Real News ([link removed]) , Al Jazeera News ([link removed]) (for coverage of Genocide in Palestine), The Gray Zone ([link removed]) , The Orinoco Tribune ([link removed]) ...

13 BRAVE GIANTS ([link removed])
How We Won the Landmark Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits in Canada and the Mynor Padilla Criminal Trial in Guatemala, and at What Cost! ([link removed])
By Grahame Russell, Rights Action, 2025

TESTIMONIO Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala ([link removed])
Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell , Between The Lines, 2021

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