Here, links to two mainstream news articles about forced migrancy from Central America that border on voyeurism capitalizing on suffering.

En 2019, Pan American Silver (que compró Tahoe Resources en 2019) optó, a través de una demanda histórica en Canadá, por pagar reparaciones a las víctimas guatemaltecas de la represión y violencia minera de Tahoe Resources ocurrida en 2013. (https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/pan-american-silver-forced-to-offer-settlement-to-guatemala-victims-of-mining-repression)

In 2019, Pan American Silver (that purchased Tahoe Resources in 2019) chose, through a landmark lawsuit in Canada, to pay reparations to Guatemalan victims of Tahoe Resources’ mining repression and violence that occurred in 2013 (https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/pan-american-silver-forced-to-offer-settlement-to-guatemala-victims-of-mining-repression).

Zero oversight or legal accountability in Canada for illegal, failed ‘Lima Group’ efforts to help the U.S. overthrow government of Venezuela. Illegal U.S. and Canadian sanctions still in place

Below: “‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization”, The Guardian article

Below: “Sanctions May Impoverish Nicaraguans, but Likely Will Not Change their Vote”, by John Perry, NACLA, August 6, 2021

Eleven years after the Hudbay lawsuits were initiated in Toronto courts; after 18 months of increased suffering and hardship due to Covid-19, and Hurricanes Eta and Iota that walloped eastern Guatemala and northern Honduras in October 2020; after the death of a plaintiff in 2020 – Elena Choc Quib – due to ovarian cancer, the 13 Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs (Elena now represented by her eldest daughter) remain determined to see the Hudbay lawsuits to the end, no matter how much long they may continue.

In the mountains of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, the Asociacion de Comites de Produccion Comunitaria (ACPC) works home to home, village to village, to re-build community self-sufficiency in the aftermath of the Guatemalan State genocide against the Maya Achi people in the 1980s. The 1999, UN Truth Commission concluded that the US-backed Guatemalan military carried out genocide against for Maya regions of the country, including the Achi people of Rabinal.

26 years after the signing of the so-called “Peace Accords”, Guatemala continues to be ruled by exploitative, repressive business elites and corrupt, military-backed governments that are “democratic allies” of and maintain full military/ economic/ political relations with the U.S., Canada and so-called international community.