26-May-2025
Herbert Smith Freehills
Earlier this year, a split ICSID Tribunal found Guatemala liable to pay USD 68.5 million in damages plus interest to Panamanian company Energia y Renovación Holding.
19-Aug-2024
Euromaidan Press
Ukraine initiates free trade agreement talks with Guatemala to boost economic cooperation. Guatemala has actively supported Ukraine in international forums since Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine.
9-Jan-2024
The Korea Times
Korea’s trade ministry said that Guatemala has formally signed a deal to join Seoul’s free trade agreement with a group of Central American nations.
5-Sep-2023
Yonhap News Agency
Guatemala will join a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and a group of Central American nations, Seoul’s trade ministry said. Guatemala was initially among dialogue partners for the FTA, but it had stepped out during negotiations amid differences on tariff and country of origin related rules.
6-Dec-2022
Inequality.org
Local resisters are calling for a different economic model — one that prioritizes clean water and soil, healthy communities, peace, dignity, and self-determination.
28-Jul-2022
Sierra Nevada Ally
However, locals feel latent tension that the imminent consultation process or the arbitration suit could revive earlier threats, violence, and legal persecution from company employees and contractors.
3-Mar-2022
Inequality.org
An attempted assassination, criminalization, and violent eviction in 2014 didn’t stop the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Guatemala, which won legal action suspending harmful mining activities.
28-Sep-2021
Yonhap News Agency
South Korea’s trade ministry said it is currently under negotiations with Guatemala to invite the Central American country to a multilateral trade pact that fully went into effect this year.
27-Mar-2020
Inequality.org
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout Latin America and around the world.
29-May-2019
Nevada Capital News
In December of 2018, KCA filed a $300 million-dollar arbitration claim against the government of Guatemala under CAFTA-DR.
19-Oct-2017
Upside Down World
A chapter on labor issues within CAFTA was to provide an improved environment for labor rights. But the Guatemalan state has consistently failed to implement these protections.
3-Jul-2017
People’s World
“The panel’s decision flies in the face of common sense. Guatemala’s failure to protect its workers and enforce its own laws is apparent to nearly everyone except the arbitrators.”
