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Indigenous Minority Rights – 2006

After facing discriminatory practices in previous elections, approximately one million Guatemalans, many of them indigenous persons, were able to register to vote for the first time.¹

On 12 October 2009 (Columbus Day), approximately 20,000 indigenous citizens participated in protests against the Government’s failure to protect indigenous rights.²

1. Manuel Roig-Franzia, “For Guatemalan Villagers, Ability to Vote Is a Victory,” The Washington Post, Met 2 Edition, September 10, 2007, A11.
2. “Protests by Indigenous Citizens,” Keesing’s Record of World Events Volume 55 (October 2009): 49456.