As Joe Biden begins his presidency, a majority of Honduran people continue to suffer the violence and oppression of the military-backed, drug-trafficking, ‘open-for-global-business’ Honduran regime brought to power in the US and Cdn-backed military coup of June 28, 2009 - during Biden’s first term as Vice-President during the Obama presidency.

Thousands of Hondurans were met with Guatemalan military violence as they flee systemic repression, corruption and impoverishment of the narco-military Honduran regime, a “democratic allie” of United States and Canada since the June 28, 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratic government … an illegal regime change coup supported by the US and Canada.

U.S. federal prosecutors allege Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández took bribes from drug traffickers, had Honduran army protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to U.S.

• Below: AP news report, Jan.9, 2021

Thank you to folks across Canada & U.S. whose multiple supports since 2004 are instrumental in making these justice struggles possible

Mynor Padilla, Hudbay Mineral’s former head of security, found guilty on charges of mining-linked repression, including murder, in Guatemala on September 27, 2009.

Today, January 6, 2020, a judge will rule on the re-trial of Mynor Padilla, former head of security for Hudbay Minerals and Skye Resources (and former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guatemalan Army). Padilla has been on trial for the mining-related murder of Mayan Q’eqchi’ land and human rights defender Adolfo Ich, and the shooting and paralyzing of German Chub that same day, September 27, 2009.

This article by Nicholas Copeland is about the enormity of wealth and power, corruption and violence the Guatemalan people suffer from and fight to transform. The U.S., Canada and the E.U., global corporations, the World Bank and IMF, are fully complicit in, and benefit from this endemic corruption and lack of democracy, exploitation and violence.