Guatemala: Mayan Ixil Activist Juana Raymundo Murdered
Published 31 July 2018
Juana was a nurse and the sixth member of the Committee of Campesino Development murdered in 2018.
The murder of Juana Raymundo, a 25-year-old Mayan Ixil nurse and activist, has sparked outrage in Guatemala as social movements are being criminalized and leaders threatened and murdered.
According to local media, Raymundo was murdered the night of Friday, July 28, and her body was found with signs of torture near a river between Nebaj and Acambalam.
She was a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Campesino Development (Codeca) for the last five years and was also the organization's regional coordinator in Nebaj. She had been recently elected as a member of the local council for the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples, which aims to become a political party and to the founding of a new multinational state in Guatemala.
Her father, Pedro Raymundo, told Prensa Libre that Juana went to the Cotzol Health Center on Friday morning, where she used to work as a nurse. She said she had to go later to Nebaj to deliver some reports, and her family started worrying when she didn't come back and noticed her phone was off.
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https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mayan-Ixil-Activist-Juana-Raymundo-Murdered-20180731-0022.html
