In this short interview with Kawsachun News, U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, praises U.S. assistance for human rights programs with military defense ministries in partner nations such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Faller praises the militaries of each country for their human rights efforts and records.
“Southcom has a human rights program, … now in its 20th plus year. We use this program with our partners. We have helped our partners – Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador – install human rights observers and advisors in their ministries and with their chiefs of defense. We hold seminars. I routinely meet, through this program, with human rights NGOs in the US and in partner nations to listen to their concerns. These human rights NGOs, they know their stuff, and we take it very very seriously. […]”
2021: Business, repression and corruption as usual
There is no relief in sight for the majority populations of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala - all controlled by corrupt, repressive, open-for-global-business regimes, considered “democratic allies” of U.S. and Canada.
As tens of thousands of desperate people flee into exile, every year, from these three countries, it appears clear the Biden Administration will continue with U.S. foreign policy as usual in Central America. Canada will remain lock step with the U.S.
U.S. and Canadian policies and actions continue to entrench corruption, exploitation, repression and a fundamental lack of democracy in these countries.
Grahame Rusell
grahame@rightsaction.org
Rights Action (US & Canada)
Since 1995, Rights Action: funds human rights, environment and territory defense struggles in Guatemala and Honduras; funds victims of repression and human rights violations, health harms and natural disasters (Covid19, hurricanes, etc.); and 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.
