Cafe Justicia is a delicious organic “fair trade plus” coffee grown by Mayan communities in the hillsides around Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
With the purchase of this unique emergency edition of Café Justicia, you are supporting different community and social development projects in Guatemala at this time of crisis caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Special edition price: $10.00 per 452 gr. bag (regular price $15.00)
Thank you for your support and solidarity! Delivery scheduled in the cities listed below every Friday.
For more information on delivery schedule, pick up, or where you can buy this incredible offer of Café Justicia, please contact us:
Hamilton: (905) 308-7450
Kitchener-Waterloo: (519) 498-04133
Mississauga: (416) 826-3039
Montreal: (514) 609-4602 or (514) 292-6175
Ottawa: (613) 240-4322
Owen Sound: (416) 833-9921
Toronto: (416) 671-9130
Todos por Guatemala/All for Guatemala – Canada
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All for Guatemala, the signatory organizations and individuals below, to the national and international community, condemn the brutal and senseless murder of Maya-Kek’chi spiritual guide, sage and defender of mother earth, Domingo Choc Che, which occurred in the village of Chimay, San Luis municipality, department of Petén, Guatemala, on June 6 this year, by a group of people who detained and tortured him for several hours, then covered him with gasoline and burned him alive.
Domingo Choc Che was Ajq’ij, Aj ilonel, very knowledgeable about traditional Mayan medicine, a member of the Releb’aal Saq’e’ Council of Spiritual Guides, based in Poptún, Petén; he was a member of an interdisciplinary team of scientists – Mayan, Guatemalan and European – associated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland, University College London in England, and the Medical Anthropology Unit of del Valle University in Guatemala.
This criminal act is not isolated, and forms part of the systemic racism embedded in the structures of Guatemalan society for hundreds of years, since the time of Spanish colonization, which has raged against the indigenous peoples, satanizing all aspects of our culture and identity. This racism has permeated Guatemalan society at every socioeconomic level as a result of the racist and discriminatory policies that the Guatemalan State has pursued through the various governments of the time, linked to business sectors organized in CACIF (Comité Coordinador de Asociaciones Agrícolas, Comerciales, Industriales y Financieras), institutions in charge of civil security, such as the national police and army, the communications media controlled by the same sectors associated with CACIF, and the activities of certain religious denominations.
Well recognized is the role of ideological transmission that the churches, in the majority evangelical, have played in various governments, including the present, since the period of the internal armed conflict. Neo-Pentecostal Protestantism, in particular, is an agent that inculcates in its believers negative beliefs and ignorance concerning Mayan knowledge and cosmology. It also instills hatred and a racist attitude toward their leaders, elder sages and defenders of mother earth in Guatemala.
Unfortunately, this crime is not the only one, as is reflected in the following occurrences:
Murder of spiritual leaders: during the past 16 years about 20 Mayan spiritual leaders have been killed in different parts of the country; José Andrés López in San Juan Atitán, 23/01/2020; Bernardino Solval Morales, El Progreso village, San Bernardino Suchitepéquez, 13/06/2017; Sebastián Sajic Córdova, San Juan Cotzal, Quiché, 15/09/2015; Lisandro Guarcax, El Tablón, Sololá, 26/08/2010, and others.
Murder, persecution and imprisonment of dozens of community leaders and land defenders: to mention a few; Alberto Cucul, forest steward of Lake Lachuá, Petén, killed on June 8, 2020; José Xol Can, Mateo Chamán Paau and Ramón, Choc Scrab, members of CCDA (Comité Campesino del Altiplano) in the Verapaces, killed in May, 2020; seven leaders of CODECA (Comité de Desarrollo Campesino), killed in the last few months in different regions of Guatemala.
Death threats and racist attacks against cultural personalities, journalists and human rights leaders: racist attacks against Maya-Kaqchikel singer and activist Sara Curruchich; a break-in at the home of human rights defender Tania Palencia; recurring death threats against journalists Carlos Ernesto Choc y Baudilio Choc by personnel of the mining company that operates in Estor, Izabal; death threats this past June 11 against journalist and correspondent of the Prensa Communitaria news agency, Elías Caal Oxom, due to his family’s practice of Mayan medicine; arbitrary detention of journalist Francisco Chox of APECCOS (Asociación de Periodistas y Comunicadores Sociales) in Sololá.
Criminalization of peasant organizations defending the rights of farm workers, amongst others.
Because of what is stated above, we demand:
That the Public Ministry: act and investigate such that those responsible for the death of Domingo Choc Che and other crimes be submitted to justice, and that these crimes do not remain in impunity.
That the Guatemalan government:
End the militarization of Guatemalan society through establishing states of exception in areas of social conflict, and seek other mechanisms within the framework of the law to resolve the conflicts present there.
Cease the policy of criminalization of Mayan community and spiritual leaders, defenders of mother earth, journalists, activists and human rights defenders, as well as the organizations representing those communities.
Create the conditions to change this endemic racist environment which permeates Guatemalan society.
Respect Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), as well as the Accord on the Identity and Rights of the Indigenous Peoples.
To national and international public opinion, we ask for your solidarity and to speak out against this wave of violence, racism and discrimination against the Mayan peoples of Guatemala.
June 2020
TODOS POR GUATEMALA/ALL FOR GUATEMALA, KITCHENER, HAMILTON, LONDON, TORONTO, OTTAWA, MONTREAL – CANADA AGRUPACION VICTOR JARA, TORONTO – CANADA ALBA SUIZA – SWITZERLAND ALTERNATIVA LATINOAMERICANA, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH RADIO – CANADA AMANDLA RADIO PROGRAM CKUT, MONTREAL- CANADA AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, OFICINA REGIONAL PARA AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE (AFSC) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION ARNATIVAS – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION COMUNICARTE – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION COMUNITARIA MULTISECTORIAL DE MONITOREO COMUNITARIO EN SALUD Y APOYO A MIGRANTES (ACOMUMSAM) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION CONSEJERIA OXLAJUJ IX PARA CENTROAMERICA Y MEXICO (CAMEX) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION COORDINADORA COMUNITARIA DE SERVICIOS PARA LA SALUD-GUATEMALA (ACCSS) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION DE DESARROLLO SOCIAL DE IXCAN (ADESI) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION DE FAMILIARES DE MIGRANTES DESAPARECIDOS DE GUATEMALA (AFAMIDEG) – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION DE MUJERES DE GUATEMALA (AMG) – SPAIN ASOCIACION LAMBDA – GUATEMALA ASOCIACION POP NO’J- GUATEMALA ASOCIACION SALVADORENA CANADIENSE (ASALCA) – CANADA ASSOCIATION DES GUATEMALTEQUES DU QUEBEC – CANADA BC CASA/CAFÉ JUSTICIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA – CANADA CENTRO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS ORALIA MORALES – MEXICO CENTRO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS FRAY MATIAS DE CORDOVA – MEXICO CHE PROJECTS – CANTABAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS, HAMILTON – CANADA CIPREVICA – GUATEMALA CIRCULO BOLIVARIANO LOUIS RIEL, TORONTO – CANADA CIRCULO SAGRADO DE ABUELAS Y ABUELOS DE GUATEMAYA – GUATEMALA COALICION INDIGENA DE MIGRANTES DE CHIAPAS (CIMCH) – MEXICO COMITÉ DE DERECHOS HUMANOS FRAY PEDRO LORENZO DE LA NADA A.C. – MEXICO CLAVEL ROJO – GUATEMALA COLECTIVO GUATEMALTECO EN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA – UNITED STATES COLECTIVO MADRESELVA – GUATEMALA COLECTIVO MIRADAS EN RESISTENCIA – GUATEMALA COLOMBIAN ACTION SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE, TORONTO – CANADA COMISION DE MIGRANTES – GUATEMALA COMITÉ MUNICIPAL DE MIGRACION – GUATEMALA COMITÉ POR LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS DE AMERICA LATINA (CDHAL) – MONTREAL, CANADA COMUNIDADES ECLESIALES DE BASE DE GUATEMALA CONSEJO DE JUVENTUD PARA EL DESARROLLO IXCOYENSE (COJDI) – GUATEMALA CONSEJO NACIONAL DE AJQ’IJAB’ OXLAJUJ AJPOP – GUATEMALA CONSEJO OXLAJUJ IMOX, CHUARRANCHO – GUATEMALA CONSEJO PRO-BOLIVIA – EUROPE CRAIG M. COGUT, PROFESSORSHIP, LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, BROWN UNIVERSITY– UNITED STATES DESPERTAR MAYA, LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA – UNITED STATES EQUIPO DE ESTUDIOS COMUNITARIOS Y ACCION PSICOSOCIAL (ECAP) – GUATEMALA EDWARD LAROQUE TINKER PROFESSORSHIP, CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, STANDFORD UNIVERSITY– UNITED STATES FEDERACION GUATEMALTECA DE ESCUELAS RADIOFONICAS (FGER) – GUATEMALA FESTIVALES SOLIDARIOS/PANAL – GUATEMALA FORMACION Y CAPACITACION A.C. (FOCA) – MEXICO FUNDACION CULTURAL LA NAVE DE PAPEL – COLOMBIA FUNDACIÓN RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM (RMT) – REPRESENTACION CANADA GOBIERNO ANCESTRAL – GUATEMALA GUATEMALA COMMUNITY NETWOK, TORONTO – CANADA INICIATIVA CIUDADANA PARA LA PROMOCION DE LA CULTURA DEL DIALOGO, A.C. – MEXICO INICIATIVAS PARA EL DESARROLLO HUMANO A.C. – MEXICO INSTITUTO MEXICANO PARA EL DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO (IMDEC) – MEXICO INSTITUTO PARA LAS MUJERES EN LA MIGRACION A.C. (IMUMI) – MEXICO JOVENES POR EL CAMBIO – GUATEMALA KAIROS CANADA KITCHENER-WATERLOO MAYAN PROJECT – CANADA LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP, WASHINGTON DC. – UNITED STATES LA 72, HOGAR -REFUGIO PARA PERSONAS MIGRANTES – MEXICO MAMA MAQUIN – GUATEMALA MEDICOS DEL MUNDO FRANCE – SPAIN – MEXICO MELLON VISITING PROFESSORSHIP, CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES MESA NACIONAL PARA LAS MIGRACIONES EN GUATEMALA (MENAMIG) – GUATEMALA MESA TECNICA DE MIGRACION, IXCAN – GUATEMALA MOLANIL K’INAL B’E – GUATEMALA MONTREAL ELDERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE – CANADA MOVIMIENTO DE ORGANIZACIONES SOCIALES Y CAMPESINAS DE PETEN – GUATEMALA OLDER WOMAN LIVE (OWL) COLLECTIVE – CANADA ORGANIZACIONES LIBRES DEL PUEBLO-RESISTIR Y LUCHAR (OLP-RL) -ARGENTINA PARROQUIA DE FRONTERA COMALAPA – MEXICO PARTITO OPERAIO E POPOLARE – TICINO, SWITZERLAND PASTORAL DE MIGRANTES – MEXICO PASTORAL SOCIAL LA LIBERTAD CRISTO DE ESQUIPULAS – GUATEMALA PERIODICO RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO (ARGENTINA, CUBA, VENEZUELA, PERU) PLANTONES POR LA DIGNIDAD – GUATEMALA PLATAFORMA 51 – GUATEMALA PLATAFORMA CANADA – CANADA PROGRAMA LA ESQUINA, RADIO VOCES LATINAS, TORONTO- CANADA RED DE INTELECTUALES ARTISTAS Y MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES EN DEFENSA DE LA HUMANIDAD RED JUVENIL AK’MOLAM – GUATEMALA RED LATINOAMERICANA Y DEL CARIBE DE SOLIDARIDAD, TORONTO – CANADA MARITIMES-GUATEMALA BREAKING THE SILENCE NETWORK – CANADA RESUMEN LATINOAMERCIANO – ARGENTINA SECRETARIADO INTERNACIONAL POR EUROPA DEL CONAICOP SERVICIO JESUITA A MIGRANTES (SJM) – MEXICO SERVICIO JESUITA A REFUGIADOS (SJR) – MEXICO SERVICIO PASTORAL A MIGRANTES SAN MARTIN DE PORRES (SEPAMI-SMP) – MEXICO SERVICIO INTERNACIONAL CRISTIANO DE SOLIDARIDAD CON LOS PUEBLOS DE AMERICA LATINA: OSCAR ROMERO (SICSAL) – CANADA SOCIEDAD CIVIL – GUATEMALA TINKER PROFESSORSHIP, TERESA LOZANO LONG INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS – AUSTIN, UNITED STATES TZIJOLAJ, OTTAWA – CANADA UNA AYUDA PARA TI MUJER MIGRANTE A.C. – MEXICO VOCES MESOAMERICANAS, ACCION CON PUEBLOS MIGRANTES, A.C. – MEXICO WOMAN BUILDING FUTURES – CANADA
Allen Gunderson, Canada Amable Fernandez, writer, Venezuela Ana Lucia Ramazzini, Guatemala Ana Silvia Monzon, Guatemala Anne Schlenker, Canada Carlos Anárez, journalist, Argentina Carlos Angulo-Rivas, Poetas por la Paz, Canada Carlos Ixquiac, United States Carlos Mario Uribe, Colombia Carlos Roberto Martínez, union leader Carlos Valero, Venezuela David Heap, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada Diana Cameros, Guatemala Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Emma López Penados, Guatemala Florinda González, Guatemala Franklin Ledezma, Panama Geraldina Colotti, journalist, Italy Giordana Garcia Sojo, editor, professor, activist, Venezuela Guy Quinn, Canada Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, PhD, antropologist Maya K’iche’, Guatemala Jesús Mujica Rojas, Venezuela Jorge Falcone, documentary filmmaker, Argentina José Hurtado Paz y Paz, Guatemala Julio Ceren, Canada Laura Asturias, Guatemala Lesvia Vela, ajq’ij Maya, Canada Lisseth Castro, Guatemala Luz Marina Ramírez, Guatemala María Torrellas, documentary filmmaker, Argentina Margarito Hernández, Petén, Guatemala Maricruz Figueroa Portillo, Guatemala Marylena Bustamante Miguel Antonio Guevara, Venezuela Monica Berger González, Guatemala Nery R. Villatoro Robledo, Guatemala Norman Briski, actor, dramatist, Argentina Oswaldo Jansenio Juaréz Castellanos, Guatemala Otto Mora, singer, Guatemala Patricia Cabrera, Guatemala Robert McBryde, Canada Roberto Perdia, lawyer, Argentina Ronny Velásquez, anthropologist and Doctor of Social Sciences, Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) Ruth del Valle, Guatemala Sergio Valdéz Pedroni, Guatemala Shirley Pettifer, Canada Tito Medina, singer-songwriter, Guatemala-Canada Valério De Patta Pillar, Brazil Ximena Calanchina, Switzerland
CC. Ministry of the Interior, Guatemala Attorney General’s Office, Guatemala Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDH), Guatemala Comité de Desarrollo Campesino -CODECA Comité Campesino del Altiplano -CCDA Canadian Embassy in Guatemala Guatemalan Embassy in Canada Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Amnesty International Impunity Watch National and International media
