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Harvest of Empire: Bitter anniversaries in Guatemala & Honduras Commemorating U.S. & Canadian supported military coups, 1954 & 2009
June 27 and 28 are bitter dates in Guatemalan and Honduran history, when the U.S. and Canada (and other actors in the “international community”) supported violent regime change interventions that, for decades now, have had devastating consequences for the majority populations of both countries.
Feminist Encampment ¡Berta Lives! demands justice against US & Canadian-backed Honduran regime for assassination of Berta Caceres
Below, a Common Dreams article
Rights Action, via the Honduras Solidarity Network, is helping fund the Feminist Encampment ¡Berta Lives!, as work continues to expose the deeply complicit responsibility of the US and Canada in Honduras’ human rights nightmare situation since the 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government.
Illegal, harmful US (& Canadian) sanctions against Venezuela (& Nicaragua)
Rights Action forwards this article about illegal and harmful U.S. sanctions against Venezuela.
Following the US lead, Canada has illegal sanctions against Venezuela. Both the US and Canada have illegal sanctions against Nicaragua also, …
… even as the US and Canada maintain full political, economic, military relations with corrupt, violent, military-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’ regimes in Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti and beyond.
NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other tourism invaders, criminalize 73-year old Garifuna woman defending her own land
NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other covetous tourism invaders, use the corrupt Honduran legal system to bring trumped up charges against Silvia Bonilla Flores, a 73-year old Garifuna woman, and 32 other community members defending their lands coveted by the imperialist tourism industry. (Photo: OFRANEH, June 16, 2021, Silvia Bonilla Flores)
Public letter denouncing repressive “NGO law” in Guatemala Seeking organizational sign-ons
Rights Action forwards this information from NISGUA
No consultation process without mining suspension first! Legal actions underway to suspend Solway Investment Group’s illegal mining operation in Guatemala
Solway Investment Group, a Swiss company, and its Guatemalan subsidiary CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel), continue to illegally operate the “Fenix” mine in Mayan Q’eqchi’ territories of eastern Guatemala, despite a court ordered suspension order.
Justice in Guatemala for “Death Squad dossier” war crimes trial
U.S. & Canada must insist to their “democratic allie”, the military-backed, Guatemalan government, that justice be done in the “Death Squad dossier” war crimes trial
Justice for Berta Caceres - Sign-on letters in US & Canada
Justice for assassination of Berta Caceres by US & Canadian-backed regime in Honduras
Please read & sign letters
Acciones legales para lograr la suspensión definitiva de la operación minera “Fenix” en El Estor, Guatemala
Solway Investment Group, una compañía Suisa, y la CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel), siguen operando ilegalmente la mina Fenix, a pesar de una orden de suspensión. El estado Guatemalteco no esta actuando para obligar a Solway/CGN a parar sus operaciones mineras.
New Film: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues), about COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras
As a criminal trial continues into its 6th week against David Castillo, paid coordinator of the hit squad that assassinated COPINH co-founder Berta Caceres on March 3, 2016, as OFRANEH and the SUNLA investigation team continue to demand justice for the forced disappearance of four Garifuna community defenders on July 18, 2020, La Lucha Sigue - directed by Sam Vinal (Mutual Aid Media) - has been released, documenting COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras.