After being forced to flee destitution, and State violence and corruption in Guatemala, a country ruled by a military-backed, corrupt and repressive ‘open-for-global-business’ government, forced migrants are massacred trying to cross Mexico and enter the US.

“Somoza is our son of a bitch”
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is reported to have said that "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch", referring to the ruthless military-backed dictator of Nicaragua that the US government was propping up.

Gloria Rogel del Cid & Juan de Dioz Tejada
remembered

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