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The face of America has always been the face of Donald Trump
Article by Wallace Shawn, The New York Review
“But for those countless others, in the cities and towns of the USA and in countries far away,
to whom America has not been good,
the face of America has always and forever been the face of Donald Trump.”
Guatemala’s military-backed, racist and exploitative regime – an open-for-global-business “democratic allie” of Canada and U.S. – is blocking war crimes trials and justice struggles
Article by Sandra Cuffe, Vice News, October 28, 2020
Illegal regime change efforts with a “human rights” face: Prime Minister Trudeau’s imperialist Venezuela policy
Rights Action shares this op-ed piece by Venezuela’s Foreign Minister. This was published just after a big majority of Bolivians took back and restored their democracy, after the U.S. and Canadian-backed military ouster of President Evo Morales in 2019.
Elena Choc Quib has died
Killed by cancer, and by the indifference, power and wealth of a faraway Canadian mining company, its investors and government supporters
Jailing the Guapinol mining-resistance defenders in Honduras
Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries to defend human rights, land and the environment, ever since the 2009 U.S. and Canadian-backed coup brought to power a repressive, pro-business regime, still in power due to systemic repression and electoral fraud, links to international businesses and organized crime, and to corruption and impunity.
Covid19 & Caravans of forced migrants from Honduras Thousands flee desperation, violence and corruption of U.S. and Canadian-backed regime
Honduran migrants are caught between economic despair and militarized crackdowns
By Sandra Cuffe, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 3, 2020
Lote Ocho women file sexual violence criminal complaint against CGN mining company in Guatemala
CGN, owned today by Solway Investment Group of Switzerland, was owned by Canadian Skye Resources at time of the sexual violence against Mayan Q’eqchi’ villagers in 2007
Ontario court rejects Hudbay Minerals appeal in Lote Ocho sexual violence lawsuit
“Mr. Wanless, I do not need to hear from you”, said Judge Fred Myers of the Ontario Superior Court during the September 30, 2020 Hudbay Minerals lawsuit hearing, indicating he had no need to listen to arguments from lawyers for the plaintiffs Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein.
Lote Ocho sexual violence victims speak
“The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the alleged gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was allegedly gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.””
Lote Ocho gang-rapes & violent evictions - How a Canadian mining company infiltrated the Guatemalan State
~ In depth article from The Intercept, by Max Binks-Collier ~