Maude Barlow:
Ten years ago, I had the privilege of touring the sites of several Canadian mining operations in Guatemala, including the infamous Marlin Mine, owned by Goldcorp Inc., and the now ever more infamous Fenix Mine, then owned by Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals. I was the guest of Grahame Russell of Rights Action who has tirelessly worked for mining justice in that country and others for many years.

Life as normal in Honduras, an exploited country ruled by the military-backed, drug-trafficking regime of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a “democratic allie” government with full political, military and economic relations with the U.S. and Canada since the 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government.

As of September 1, 2021, Rights Action sent $225,000 of your grants and individual donations to partner organizations, communities and individuals, mainly in Guatemala and Honduras.

Across Canada and in exile around the world, family members of the disappeared work closely with other family members of the disappeared still living in Guatemala, struggling endlessly, demanding the truth about their forcibly disappeared loved ones, demanding justice against the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.

Edwin Espinal & Raul Alvarez, Honduran political prisoners, had all the malicious criminal charges against them dropped

... and Why is Collingwood Today (see below) the only media reporting on the trial of Edwin Espinal, a political prisoner with family in Simcoe County (Ontario), on malicious charges related to massive protests after the U.S. and Canadian-backed regime fraudulently and violently stole the 2017 presidential elections?

Rights Action shares this update and analysis on Edwin and Raul's trial (facing trumped up charges filed by the corrupt, repressive, U.S. and Canadian backed government) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
This update is from AquiAbajo.org and written by Karen Spring, Edwin's partner.

Honduran democracy & human rights defenders on trial
On September 13 and 14, Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez will stand trial on trumped up charges stemming from protests against the 2017 elections that were violently and fraudulently stolen by the U.S. and Canadian-backed regime of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Forced Migrancy & Refugee Flight

“The inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide”
(Harsha Walia)