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Criminalization of 35 Azacualpa community members by U.S. mining company Aura Minerals and MINOSA (Honduran subsidiary)
35 community and environmental defenders from Azacualpa and other villages are being prosecuted on trumped up charges. Aura Minerals/MINOSA had 19 people charged since 2017. Now, 16 more have been added. They face criminal charges of "damages to private property".
Criminalizacion de 35 miembros de la comunidad de Azacualpa por minera estadounidense Aura Minerals y MINOSA (filial Hondurena)
Son 35 defensores de las comunidad y del medioambiente de Azacualpa y otras aldeas, con procesos judiciales. Aura Minerals/MINOSA tenía procesados a 19 personas desde 2017. Ahora, se suma unos 16 más. Son procesos por « daños y perjuicios a la propiedad privada ».
Border and Rule Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Rights Action highly recommends Harsha Walia’s book about forced migrancy and refugee flight across the planet, in our unjust, unequal Nation State system.
Berta Caceres commemorative bench & apple trees, Fredericton, Canada
“Berta reminded the world that the hurt that pours out in Honduras today is a result of colonialism, capitalism and imperialism and it has everything to do with not just the US but also Canada. … It is unacceptable that Canadians know so little about how our foreign policy is hurting people around the world.”
(Tracy Glynn)
US & Canada hammer away with ‘regime change’ policies against Venezuela & Nicaragua, that can only result in more human suffering & desperation
Below – Webinar links
US-Canada hybrid war against Venezuela ~ Webinar: Sept. 11, 12:00 CDT, 1:00 pm EST
Hybrid War, Sanctions & US Regime Change in Nicaragua ~ Webinar: Sept. 1, 8pm ET / 5 pm PT
Rights Action denounces this on-going, violent imperialism of the US and Canada, two rich and powerful G7 countries.
Voyeurism-capitalizing-on-suffering reporting about continuing refugee flight from Guatemala and Honduras
Here, links to two mainstream news articles about forced migrancy from Central America that border on voyeurism capitalizing on suffering.
Pan American Silver (Minera San Rafael) demandada por danos a la comunidad de La Cuchilla
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)
Pan American Silver facing lawsuit in Guatemala for damages to property and life in village of La Cuchilla
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).
“The Lima Group, that morally bankrupt, mongoose gang”
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
Maya Achi people in Rabinal: “A return to economies that existed before capitalism”
Below: “‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization”, The Guardian article