The 60-year-old Benoit Pierre Amedee María, known as “Benito,” was an agronomist with Agronomists and Veterinarians Without Borders. He worked to alleviate poverty and support land rights in Guatemala’s Mayan highlands for more than two decades.
The murder is a warning to community activists and environmental defenders across the country. It also signals that Guatemala’s efforts to combat impunity are being unraveled by diehard forces of its bloody past.

Here, a letter of concern from Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a country that is not politically, economically, militarily propping up the military-backed, narco-regime in power in Honduras.

“They want us to be gone. This is not an isolated event but part of a plan to destroy Indigenous peoples. But we deserve another destiny. Honduras deserves another destiny."
(Miriam Miranda)

As Rights Action is a "tax-charitable" NGO, we are following the corruption investigation (‘ethics inquiry’) into the profit-making scheme between the Canadian Prime Minister's Office and the WE profit-making, neo-liberal NGO.

• Statement by Honduras Coalition Against Impunity

• Emergency support needed for OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras), the lead Garifuna organization

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.

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.

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Episode #27 Featuring Grahame Russell

Government of Switzerland remains silent as Swiss company –Solway Investment Group– continues to illegally operate its militarized Guatemalan mine

Five Eyes alliance —Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, US— central to Washington’s anti-China push