Mudslides, flooding rivers and torrential rains are devastating already impoverished, discriminated communities in Honduras & Guatemala
Hurricane Eta has brought devastating rainfall, mudslides and flooding rivers to Central America, particularly the Caribbean coasts of Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, further devastating the lives of the already impoverished and discriminated Indigenous and campesino communities.
As with Covid-19, Hurricane Eta disproportionately harms communities surviving at subsistence level to begin with, exposing yet again the racism, violence and disdain of corrupt, military-backed ‘open-for-global-business’ governments uninterested in supporting and empowering their own populations.
Q’eqchi’ lands and territory
Eta is walloping Q’eqchi’ communities of eastern Guatemala, still ravaged by Covid19, suffering on-going repression and militarization in service of the global mining, dams and African palm industries.
Q’eqchi’communities of El Estor, Guatemala, inundated by rains, mudslides and the overflowing Polochic and Cahobon rivers.
Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs in the landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits re-devastated. Plaintiff Elvira Choc Chub (left) and Rene, husband of plaintiff Irma Yolanda Choc Quib, stand in the waters of their destroyed survival crops.
Garifuna lands & territory
Hurricane Eta is walloping Caribbean coast communities of the Garifuna people devastated by Covid-19, and on-going Honduran regime repression in service of the global African palm, tourism, dams and mining industries trying to illegally and violently force them from their lands.
Eta back to sea as Central America tallies damages and dead, Associated Press, November 6, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-honduras-floods-panama-caribbean-c2f5e47390b6cdba2b4c78407b23e46e
Eta is bringing catastrophic rainfall to Central America, CNN, November 5, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/weather/tropical-depression-eta-thursday/index.html
Your funds
As Rights Action has done many times since 1995, we are sending emergency funds directly to long-term community partner groups in these regions who are also leading land, human rights and environmental defense struggles.
Funds are used to immediately provide: food and potable water, clothing, minimal shelter, and medical support for victims of Hurricane Eta … before the inevitable re-building work begins, once again.
Further Eta relief work - Honduras
Honduras Solidarity Network’s HURRICANE ETA EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND
