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March 13, 2020, marks 38th anniversary of Chixoy dam/Rio Negro massacres ; Skeletons in the closets of World Bank & Inter-American Development Bank
March 13, 2020, marks the 38th anniversary of the March 13, 1982, massacre of 177 Maya Achi children and women, at a spot known as ‘Pak-o-shom’, high in the mountains above Rio Negro, a village that had been nestled along the Chixoy river (also known as Rio Negro) for over 1000 years, before the violent, illegal construction the Chixoy hydro-electric dam (1975-1985).
4º aniversario del asesinato de Berta Cáceres: Quien Es y Como Vivió
El 2 marzo 2020, marca el 4 aniversario del asesinato de Berta Caceres y el atentado contra Gustavo Castro.
4th anniversary of assassination of Berta Caceres: Who She Is & What She Lived For
March 2, 2020 marks the 4th anniversary of the assassination of Berta Caceres and attempted assassination of Gustavo Castro, who was shot and left for dead that same night.
What links the Wet’suwet’en nation, “lima group” cartel & thousands of Hondurans and Guatemalans forced to flee yearly into exile?
Canadian oil and gas interests and actions on Wet’suwet’en territory: Who is doing what, and why, trying to illegally (and possibly violently) force oil and gas pipelines across Wet’suwet’en territory?
Canadian government, and oil, gas and mining policies and actions in Venezuela: Why, and for whose benefit, is Canada working to illegally intervene in, and support U.S.-led efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela?
No rest for the weary. Hudbay Minerals to appeal ruling of Canadian court in favour of Maya Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs from Guatemala
Rosa Elvira – speaking on behalf of the 11 Plaintiffs from Lote 8 – and Angelica Choc (widow of the murdered Adolfo Ich) sent statements responding to news of the ruling.
Vicious closed cycle of forced migrancy from Central America, mainly Honduras and Guatemala
If the US invades our country and imposes corrupt, murderous dictatorships,
then we will migrate to their country and stop complaining.
Cousin of drug-trafficking President of Honduras arrested in the U.S.
“Mauricio Hernández Pineda is a former high-ranking Honduran police accused of protecting cocaine shipments along with Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernández, the brother of President Juan Orlando Hernández. He was arrested in New York on Wednesday.”
Guatemala backgrounder Who the U.S., Canada & “international community” do ‘business-as-usual’ with in Guatemala; Why 10s of 1000s of impoverished, fearful Guatemalans flee into exile, every year
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.
Wet’suwet’en: We're not leaving
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?