Webinar: February 7, 7pm ET
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Rights Action is co-sponsoring this webinar, and invites all to join the discussion with Ben Norton, Eliana Carlin Ronquillo, Yves Engler and Kirsten Francescone on the uprising in Peru and the role of Canada and the U.S.
60 killed, and counting
On December 7, elected left-wing president Pedro Castillo was ousted. Nearly two months after, protests and blockades continue across Peru. Security forces have shot hundreds and killed sixty protesters, mostly indigenous, since Castillo’s ouster.
Washington and Ottawa immediately backed the ouster of President Castillo, and the U.S. and Canada have worked to shore up support for the replacement government, led by Dina Boluarte. Many countries in the region have rejected Boluarte.
This event will discuss Canadian and U.S. support for Castillo's removal as well as significant global corporate and investor interests in Peru, including Canada’s large mining presence in Peru.
Hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute – CFPI
Co-sponsored by Common Frontiers, the Canadian Latin America Alliance, Rights Action
Moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, CFPI, bmugyenyi@gmail.com
We know how this will go: Military Coups & Mining in Honduras & Guatemala
There is no way the situation will go well for the majority population in Peru, even as the Canadian-led, global mining industry rushes into the regime change void to make deals with an illegitimate government. (https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/canadian-mining-in-the-aftermath-of-military-backed-regime-change-in-peru)
In Rights Action’s work, we have seen how U.S. and Canadian-backed military coups work out.
Honduras is barely digging itself out of the 13-year hole of corruption, impunity and ‘open for global business’ repression left by a military-backed, drug-tracking regime that came to power in June 2009 via a U.S. and Canadian-back military coup. For 13 violent, destructive years, successive drug-trafficking regimes maintained full diplomatic, economic and military relations with the U.S. and Canadian-led “international community”.
Since a U.S. orchestrated coup ousted Guatemala’s last democratic government in 1954, the country has been ruled - more or less continuously - by military-backed, corrupt, ‘open for global business’ elites, through the U.S. backed State repression and genocides of the 1970s and 1980s, through to today.
TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Some of this Guatemalan story is documented in our 2021 book TESTIMONIO
https://www.testimoniothebook.org, https://btlbooks.com/book/testimonio.
Impunity & corruption of rich, powerful nations
How will the U.S. and Canadian electorate respond this time to the anti-democratic policies and actions of our government, corporations and investors?
Will the U.S. and Canadian media, our political over-sight bodies and judiciary do their jobs right, and expose and hold accountable our governments, and corporate and investment industries for their policies and actions aiming to take advantage of and profit from the military-backed regime change in Peru?
Rights Action
Since 1995, Rights Action funds land and environment, justice and human rights defense struggles, and community development projects in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as providing emergency relief funds (hurricanes, victims of repression, Covid19, etc.).
Rights Action works to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, multi-national companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, repression and human rights violations, environmental harms, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
