Mama Berta sends a message to the US, Canada & “international community” →

After the Honduran people ousted (January 27, 2022) the US and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking regime headed by Juan Orlando Hernandez, and after Juan Orlando Hernandez was arrested (February 15, 2022) on organized crime and cocaine trafficking charges, Mama Berta (mother of Berta Caceres, assassinated March 2, 2016) sends this message to the US, Canada and “international community”.

Mama Berta lives in La Esperanza, Intibuca. A lifelong nurse and midwife, she is a former Mayor of La Esperanza and a former Member of Congress. She spoke with Grahame Russell (Rights Action) in her home, after the election of President Xiomara Castro that spelled the end of 12 years and 7 months of U.S. and Canadian backed military, drug-trafficking regimes in Honduras.

Honduras Updates

  • Karen Spring (@springkj) of Honduras now (@HondurasNow)

  • Grahame Russell, Rights Action

Why thousands of Hondurans & Guatemalans flee into exile year after year
The U.S. and Canadian governments, Spain and E.U., the World Bank and global businesses and investors (in the sectors of mining, dams, African palm, sugarcane, bananas, garment “sweatshop” factors, tourism, etc.) maintain full relations with anti-democratic, corrupt, repressive, ‘open-for-global-business’ governments in Honduras and Guatemala, contributing to and benefitting from exploitation and poverty, environmental harms, repression and human rights violations, corruption and impunity.

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