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Canadian Mining Companies Profit as Guatemalans Suffer, Authors Argue
“That the harms, evictions and violence caused by Canadian companies are occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere does not make these issues any less ‘Canadian’. Once defined as significantly ‘Canadian’ problems, it becomes clearer what needs to be done, and where.”
Maya Q’eqchi’ land and rights defender Angelica Choc speaks // Habla Angelica Choc, defensora Maya Q’eqchi’
Rights Action video, November 28, 2021
New Internationalist report on Hudbay Minerals lawsuits: ‘OUR WHOLE TRUTH WILL COME OUT’
Corporate documents reveal:
“large payments, through middlemen, to the police and the military”
“A triumphant day. A day of many tears” End of the U.S./Canadian-backed Narco-regime in Honduras
12 years / 5 months after a U.S. and Canadian-backed military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratic government, actual democratic elections took place. The U.S. / Canadian-backed, drug-trafficking, military-backed candidate did NOT win.
End of a NarcoState in Honduras?
Rights Action recommends this article (London Review of Books) on the November 28, 2021 elections in Honduras
Elections in Honduras Challenge of ending twelve years of repressive neoliberalism
The past 12 years of corrupt, exploitative neoliberalism in Honduras have been imposed violently by the military-backed, drug trafficking regime of President Juan Orlando Hernandez and the National Party that has been fully supported by the U.S., Canada, Spain and the E.U. and the World Bank and IMF, since the June 28, 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratic government.
Violent, corrupt elections in Honduras, ruled with iron fist by military-backed, Canada & U.S.-backed, narco-trafficking regime
Ever since a U.S. and Canadian-backed military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratic government in 2009, the U.S. and Canada have supported 12 years of an utterly corrupt, repressive, ‘open-for-global-business’ regime.
Q’eqchi’ women from village of Lote 8, Guatemala, denounce arbitrary detention of Pablo Choc, on November 13, 2021
Video of Rosa Elvira Coc speaking
Arbitrary detention of Pablo Choc husband of plaintiff in Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada
On-going Solway Investment Group / Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN) mining repression in Guatemala targeting Maya Q’eqchi’ land and environmental defenders, including 3 of 13 plaintiffs in Hudbay Minerals lawsuit
COP26 is a Global North greenwash festival, a celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah
Based on the idea that some people are worth more than others,
and have the right to exploit others
and steal their land and resources
(Greta Thunberg)