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December 2021 Newsletter
“A triumphant day. A day of many tears”
End of the U.S./Canadian-backed Narco-regime in Honduras
Witness to Canadian mining "Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala"
Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell both teach in the Geography Department at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George; she’s department chair and he’s an adjunct professor. [Since 1995, Grahame is director of Rights Action, a not-for-profit organization that supports land, environmental, human rights and justice defense struggles in Guatemala and Honduras, including most of the land and rights defenders profiled in TESTMONIO.]
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