Dokument #1148749
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
No reference to a Movimiento Liberal Campesino (MLC) could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. One of the largest peasant organizations in the country, the National Coordination of Peasant Organizations (Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, CNOC), which is represented in 19 of Guatemala's 22 departments, including El Quiché, stated that it was unaware of such a peasant group (19 July 2000).
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Reference
Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones
Campesinas (CNOC), Guatemala City. 19 July 2000. Telephone
interview with the Deputy Coordinator General.
Additional Sources Consulted
Central America NewsPak
[Austin]. 1997-1999
Central America Report
[Guatemala City]. 1998-2000
IRB Databases
Latin American Regional Report:
Caribbean and Central America Report [London]. 1997-2000
LEXIS/NEXIS
World News Connection (WNC)
Internet sites including:
Amnesty International
Cerigua Weekly Briefs
[Guatemala City]. 1997-1999
Human Rights Watch
La Nación [San
José]. Search Engine. 1997-2000
Organization of American States
(OAS)
ReliefWeb
UN Mission for the Verification of Human
Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA)
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