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‘Regime change’ attack in Venezuela ‘Getting back to normal’ in times of Covid19
In the midst of Covid19, and as part of a multi-year effort led by the U.S. and Canada’s ‘Lima Group’ of repressive Latin American regimes, a military attack was launched in Venezuela aimed at ‘regime changing’ the Venezuelan government.
Covid19 response fund Supporting Indigenous & campesino communities, Honduras & Guatemala
Since March 15, 2020, Rights Action has sent close to $30,000 (ranging from $200 to $2000 grants) to community groups, mainly in Honduras and Guatemala, that are responding to Covid19, a pandemic that is worsening the “normal” pandemics of exploitation-poverty and discrimination, land dispossession, human rights violations and repression.
Former head of Honduran police charged in U.S. with drug trafficking crimes
The spectacularly corrupt and violent situation in Honduras is U.S. and Canadian policy at work, and the situation just got worse.
Hudbay Minerals & other mining companies helping spread Covid19 around the world
While Hudbay benefits from a Covid19-related suspension of landmark lawsuits in Canada related to gang-rapes, murder, aggravated assault at it’s former mine in Guatemala, Hudbay continues operating it’s mine in Peru, putting workers’ and the public’s lives at risk.
Survival times in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala
"Most people in this country live day by day.
You sell some socks and you buy some eggs.
They are hungry and they have to go out."
“The world has loved, hated and envied the U.S. Now, for the first time, we pity it”
“Wake up! Wake up humanity! There’s no more time.
Our consciences are shaken by the mere thought of self-destruction
by capitalist, racist, and patriarchal depredation.”
- Berta Cáceres
Covid19 update #3
“The most misleading cliche about Covid19 is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it arrives. Before long, this will cause social turmoil, up to and including uprisings and revolutions.”
(Andreas Kluth)
Covid19 update #2: We are not “all in this together”. There should be no “going back to normal”
Unless one means “we are all in this together” literally, like during the times of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave-based economies in the European-colonized lands of the Americas, then no we are not “all in this together”. Covid19 – and its varying direct and indirect impacts on humans inside nations and between nations across the planet – is exposing profound fault-lines of wealth and power / exploitation-poverty and powerlessness, and of racism.
Thank you Bernie
What a great salute. Folks in Burlington, Vermont, driving by the home of Bernie and Jane Sanders, honking, hooting and hollering their thanks, even in these times of Covid19.
In times of Covid19, stories from Honduras & Guatemala, & how the U.S. & Canadian governments, companies & investors continue to act outside our borders
Rights Action’s priority work right now is providing emergency support funds to as many partner groups as possible in Guatemala and Honduras, and to send funds to a number of forced migrants/ refugee claimants from Honduras and Guatemala, stuck in terrible limbo in the Mexico and the U.S.