The Other Face of Renewable Energy: Extractivism - Reflections inspired from “Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

The Other Face of Renewable Energy: Extractivism - Reflections inspired from “Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”

Recently, Goldcorp Inc. – one of the companies highlighted in the “Testimonio” – was bought out by Newmont Corporation (based in Greenwood Colorado), the world’s largest gold mining company, that now owns Goldcorp’s mining assets – ill-gotten licenses and processing plants – in Honduras and Guatemala, where there are on-going struggles for reparations for harms and violence caused by Goldcorp’s cyanide leaching, open pit mines they operated in both countries.

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Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

“When will Canada Admit its Venezuela Coup Failed?”

More important than ‘admitting failure’, the real questions are when will there be legal and political accountability in the U.S. and Canada for government policies and actions to illegally and violently help overthrow legitimate governments of other countries?

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CBC The Current interview: Angelica Choc & Grahame Russell, “TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

CBC The Current interview: Angelica Choc & Grahame Russell, “TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”

Transcript (Rights Action tidied up CBC’s provided transcript)
MG: Hi, I'm Matt Galloway, you're listening to The Current.
When it comes to the global mining industry, Canada is the major player. More than half the world's publicly listed exploration and mining companies are headquartered in Canada. That's more than 1500 companies with interests in some 100 countries around the world.

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 “Weaving Justice with the 36 Maya Achi Women” War crimes, sexual assault trial in Guatemala
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

“Weaving Justice with the 36 Maya Achi Women” War crimes, sexual assault trial in Guatemala

Yet another crimes against humanity trial is taking place in Guatemala. Maya Achi women – surviving victims of massacres, disappearances, torture and sexual violence and sex slavery - are courageously, with their lawyers and supporters, seeking justice against former civil defense patrollers and military commissioners who carried out the acts of sexual violence.

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Honduran military fires live rounds In support of US company Aura Minerals’ cyanide-leaching, mountain-top removal mine
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

Honduran military fires live rounds In support of US company Aura Minerals’ cyanide-leaching, mountain-top removal mine

As the US and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez continues in power until the Jan.27, 2022 transition of power to the democratically elected President Xiomara Castro, US-based mining company Aura Minerals seemingly is taken advantage of corruption and repression right to the end of the military-backed, drug-trafficking regime’s time in power.

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“A Peace Resembling War” in Guatemala
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

“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.

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US-trained killers of Berta Caceres: Alumni of West Point military academy & ‘School of the Americas’
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

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?

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