“Part of what this book’s editors demonstrate in the book is that violating human rights, using repression, and acting with corruption and impunity is how the Canadian-dominated mining industry has operated in Guatemala.
If no publisher will publish the book then this has just compounded the problem of getting at the truth.”

Not “mistakes”
While the Open Letter includes many valuable policies that can and should be implemented by the Biden administration, it is imperative to understand that the US government has not been making “mistakes” in its policies and actions in Central America - going back generations.

To think they are “mistakes” leads one to think it is easier to ‘change course’. For generations, the US has been implementing policies of political, military and economic control of the region.

“If the US invades our countries, and imposes on us corrupt, murderous dictators,
we will migrate to your country and stop complaining.”
CInPH (Indigenous Coordinator of Popular Power in Honduras)

Will decision impact the Hudbay Minerals (Skye Resources) lawsuits in Canada, as decision puts into question the underlying legality of Hudbay/Skye’s years of mining in Guatemala (2005-2011), during which time the repression and harms linked to their mining operation occurred, including killings, gang-rapes, shootings, forced evictions and community destruction?

As reported by Karen Spring (Honduras Solidarity Network), Tony Hernandez, brother of the Honduran regime leader President Juan Orlando Hernandez, is to be sentenced March 23 in the New York Southern District court for the guilty conviction in his drug-trafficking trial last year.

As a major drug-trafficking trial continues today in New York City against Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez (with direct ties to current president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, fully supported partner of the US and Canada since the 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government), Karen Spring sets out in detail how narcotrafficking has infiltrated the highest levels of the Honduran state (government, military, police) and how organized crime networks partner with and launder drug money through extractive industry projects.

March 13, 2021, Movimiento Amplio (https://www.facebook.com/MovAmplioHn/)
Our colleague Héctor Antonio Trigueros, community and environmental defender from Azacualpa (La Unión, Copán), suffered an attack in which his motorcycle was seriously damaged, while he was unharmed. According to Hector, he was at a friend's house and left his motorcycle parked when a vehicle ran over it. "A 2.5 vehicle, with license plate PDP 3572, wiped out my motorcycle I had it parked outside my friend's house, leaving my motorcycle in a bad state".

"Los Cachiros [drug trafficking cartel] bribed President Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) with $250,000 in approx. 2012. The money was given to JOH’s sister, Hilda Hernandez. Los Cachiros paid Manuel Zelaya $500,000 asking him to name their cousin as the Minister of Security. Also, Los Cachiros paid $500,000 to current Vice President Ricardo Alvarez, at the time he was campaigning to be President, and also paid $50,000 to Tony Hernandez (JOH’s brother – a convicted drug trafficker, in jail in the US)."

Below: Case before Federal Court of Canada, alleging Canadian government is illegally withholding information about the government’s (possibly illegal) diplomatic interventions on behalf of Goldcorp Inc. in Guatemala.