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Pre-consulta no se puede realizar hasta que se suspenda operacion del proyecto minero Fénix de la compania Suisa Solway Investment Group/CGN
Solway Investment Group y CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel) siguen operando ilegalmente a la mina Fenix, con el pleno apoyo del gobierno de Guatemala y del Municipio de El Estor
Former military-backed President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, blocked from entering U.S. due to drug-trafficking corruption
In a profoundly deceitful statement, Antony Blinken, head of U.S. State Department, said: "Corrupt acts of former Honduran President Lobo undermined democracy in Honduras. … We stand #UnitedAgainstCorruption with our partners in Honduras."
July 18 - 1st anniversary of forced kidnapping & disappearance of four Garifuna Indigenous land & rights defenders in Honduras
The four men – Garifuna land defenders - were forcibly disappeared from their families and community by agents of the military-backed, drug-trafficking Honduran government that (ever since the 2009 coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government) maintains full economic and military relations with the US, Canada and European Union, World Bank, IDB and IMF, and many global companies and investors.
OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) & TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International) to receive Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
“In the last two years alone, more than forty Garifuna have been murdered and a large number of others have fled their communities due to threats, criminalization and persecution.”
Miriam Miranda, General Coordinator of OFRANEH
Berta Cáceres assassination: David Castillo GUILTY The ex-head of DESA dam company found guilty
This is how hard justice is in Honduras, controlled by the U.S. and Canadian-backed corrupt, military-supported regime. The intellectual authors and financial backers of this assassination, in all likelihood members of the wealthy Atala Zablah family, remain free.
Canada Day homework assignment: “Stealing Children To Steal The Land” What kind of country do Canadians want Canada to be?
July 1, 2021 is another good day for truth-telling about land theft, genocide and crimes against humanity, inside and beyond Canada’s borders. And “Stealing Children To Steal The Land”, a comprehensive report from The Intercept and hosted by Naomi Klein, should perhaps be required listening/reading for all Canadians.
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)