More charges of environmental harms & human rights violations filed against company

This week we have finished compiling documents and a selection of photos related to the Chixoy Dam Reparations Campaign and are pleased to present them to you here!

From 1995 to mid-2000s, Rights Action supported this courageous effort by impoverished Mayan Achi people to tell the truth about and seek justice for massacres, killings and rapes, and illegal forced evictions suffered at the hands of the U.S.-backed regimes of generals Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt, violence that was carried out to help advance the Chixoy hydro-electric dam project of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.

“Palm-lined and pristine, Garifuna territory has long been coveted by tourism developers and palm oil barons historically favored by the government, which is demonstrably corrupt, up to the highest levels.”

Work and struggle continue – led by COPINH and Berta’s family members – to achieve justice against the “intellectual authors” of the assassination of Berta, the indigenous rights, anti-imperialist leader killed March 2, 2016

Watch, as Aura Minerals (US company, trading on Toronto exchange) “gets on with normal” in times of Covid19, blowing up this mountain (western Honduras) on top of which is the 200 year old Azacualpa Cemetery, in behind of which lies the community itself of Azacualpa.

Trying to silence reporting about its illegal, militarized mining operation in Mayan Q’eqchi’ territories of Guatemala

The Azacualpa community defense struggle continues in Honduras in times of Covid19 and the military-backed Narco-Regime in power, against environmental harms & human rights violations caused by U.S.-based Aura Minerals

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)