What was the relief sought in the case? How could the case help remedy the harm inflicted on these communities?
As an international case, this case is a bit different from cases within the U.S. legal system. There’s a human rights system within the Organization of American States, and typically the first place one would go as an advocate is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. And for some, you may then be eligible to then go on to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. When we first went to the Commission, we had to articulate the rights that were being violated. The Commission isn’t a court—the goal was to obtain a report concluding that Guatemala had violated the human rights of freedom of expression, the right to culture, and the right to equality before the law. We hoped that the Commission’s report would pressure Guatemala to make some changes, but the report is not a judgment.
In 2020, the Commission agreed that these violations were happening and it decided to bring the case to the Inter-American Court. We didn’t expect this case to go to court, so what we got was actually much more than what we were looking for. This is when the case looked more like the litigation that we are familiar with in the U.S. We sought a specific remedies—primarily, to make sure that Guatemala was going to recognize Indigenous community radio as a form of use of the radio frequency spectrum. We also asked the Court to order that the raids stop and some kind of financial reparations be made.
What was the outcome of the case?
Two years ago, following a hearing and briefing, the court issued a 100-page decision—and it agreed with us. The court found in favor of the four communities, and issued specific reparations for Guatemala to implement within a certain timeframe.
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