This article reviews the current challenges for indigenous ancestral authorities in Guatemala, signaling the tensions between the strengthening of indigenous authorities and their exercise of autonomy, and their criminalization by the government and the private sector, which aims to defend violent colonial dispossession.
(2017) “Indigenous Sovereignties in Guatemala: Between Criminalization and Revitalization”, NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol.49, No. 3: 370-372. ISSN: 1071-4839.