In 1985, with the country in a deep economic crisis, Guatemala's military rulers announced a new economic package that included a rise in the measly taxes imposed on the business sector. The lobby that represented the most powerful businesses in the country was furious.

From pipelines across the Wet’suwet’en Nation, to mining, bananas and tourist enclaves in Guatemala and Honduras, who does the local-to-global economy benefit? Who and what suffer the harms and violence? Inside Canada and beyond our borders, "law and order" are enforced (often violently) to benefit who? Against who and what?