human rights defender
human rights defender
Woman
Rural
(AI Translated) During the early morning hours, at the Hacienda La Asunción farm, located in the San Gregorio Piedra Parada annex of the municipality of Coatepeque, a massive and disproportionate police intervention was recorded. Motivated by complaints deemed unfounded by the Quintanal Campollo family, the action involved the deployment of ten patrols of the National Civil Police (PNC), approximately twenty‑five officers, and two armored vehicles of the Army. The objective of this operation was the arrest of four individuals, including the elderly Maria Teresa Barrera Canastuy, who are part of a collective of roughly 300 senior workers demanding their rights to retirement and medical care from the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (IGSS). This struggle arises after more than three decades in which the owning family deducted contributions from the workers but never paid them to the IGSS. The detained persons are farm laborers, all born and raised on the estate, whose presence there is legitimate and does not constitute usurpation. On the contrary, the owners, Quintanal Campollo, have systematically attempted to evict them from their homes to expand the rubber plantation.
Under house arrest (pre-trial)
Mar 2, 2026
(AI Translated) She is linked to a proceeding for the crime of usurpation.
Latitude: 14.698786578712761
Longitude: -91.86279952526094
(AI Translated) Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango
(AI Translated) PNC Substation 41-61 Coatepeque
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