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The Threat of Progress: Visiting Garifuna Country in Honduras
Here, Rights Action re-publishes “The Threat of Progress: Visiting Garifuna Country in Honduras”, written in early 2006. Author Tory Russell wrote this vivid account of Garifuna life, culture and land, based on a 2005 year-end visit she made to the north shore of Honduras to provide human rights accompaniment to Gregoria Flores, former general coordinator of OFRANEH, shot twice on May 30, 2005, in La Ceiba. Gregoria survived the assassination attempt, but was forced into hiding. In late 2005, Gregoria traveled to her home community of Triunfo de la Cruz to attend to unfinished business, before going into exile in the US where she applied for asylum.
Four Garifuna youth kidnapped & disappeared by US / Canadian-backed Honduran regime
In the midst of the Covid19 pandemic - that is obviously devastating a majority of the Honduras population, and particularly indigenous and African descendant peoples – Honduran state and private sector violence and ethnocide continue unabated against Garifuna people along Honduras’ north Caribbean shore.
A New Podcast for Your List
Jointly Venturing - Let's Talk About World Citizenship
Episode #27 Featuring Grahame Russell
Solway Investment Group (Swiss mining company) & Guatemalan military threats against Angelica, Ramiro and Maria Choc, other Mayan Q’eqchi community defenders
Government of Switzerland remains silent as Swiss company –Solway Investment Group– continues to illegally operate its militarized Guatemalan mine
From “British” empire to “Five Eyes” neo-colonialist imperialism
Five Eyes alliance —Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, US— central to Washington’s anti-China push
"Close the sweatshops or we close the hospitals"
There is nothing easy about Covid-19. Mixing this global pandemic with US and Canadian support for a military-backed, corrupt, ‘open-for-global-business’ regime does NOT work out well for the majority in Honduras.
Honduras Covid-19 update from Edwin Espinal, former political prisoner who remains criminalized by regime
(Janet Spring (Edwin’s mother-in-law) writes: Edwn Espinal gives an update on the situation in Honduras. Find my latest Springwater News article below, which also reports on the food distribution programs that SCHRM is sponsoring. Thanks to the many donors who have donated to these important projects. I also report on Canadian mining and sweatshop practices that are compromising the health of their communities of workers.)
Canadian gov’t, financial & mining industries ‘getting on with normal’
‘The trouble with normal
is it always gets worse’
(Well known bard)
Aura Minerals mining with drug-trafficking linked companies in Honduras, in times of Covid19
It was reported July 7, 2020, that the owners of INCOBE, a Honduran heavy machinery company partnered with US and Canadian mining company Aura Minerals, must remain in pre-trial detention. They are accused of involvement with drug-trafficking organized crime.
Mayan “ruins” and territories in Guatemala could become US-funded & controlled tourism money scheme
In the harsh times of Covid19 in Guatemala, a country dominated by a corrupt, racist, military-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’ regime – fully supported by US and Canada, World Bank and IMF, a US-led consortium of investors seek to privatize Mayan territories and “ruins” for tourism adventures for mainly European and North American holiday travelers.