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“A Peace Resembling War” in Guatemala
In Honduras and Guatemala, Rights Action supports community groups trying to oust corrupt, repressive regimes - “democratic allies” of the US, Canada and EU, World Bank and IMF, global companies and banks.
US-trained killers of Berta Caceres: Alumni of West Point military academy & ‘School of the Americas’
Even as the Honduran people overcame electoral fraud and repression to end 12 years and 5 months of a US and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking military regime, huge work remains to seek justice for the political crimes of this “democratic ally” of the US and Canada, including the March 2, 2016 assassination of Berta Caceres. Will justice be done for the Atala Zablah family, who allegedly ordered and paid for the killing of Berta?
How Canada Propped Up The Honduran Narco-Regime
Kawsachun News interview with Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Thank-you Chuck Kaufman: internationalist and anti-imperialist
Beginning another year of exposing, denouncing and resisting the on-going imperialism of the U.S. and Canada in the western hemisphere, Rights Action adds our thanks for the life, vision and spirit of Chuck Kaufman.
TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala - Book reviews, news articles and commentaries
Dear friends,
Below, you will find a range of reviews, articles and commentaries about our recently published book.
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”