Or, to summarize 12 years and 7 months of official US and Canadian policy towards the people and country of Honduras: Who gives a f**k!

On Thursday night, January 20, 2022, Aura Minerals (USA) and MINOSA (Honduran subsidiary), completely destroyed the Azacualpa cemetery, illegally exhuming the remains of loved ones buried there.

En horas de la noche, jueves 20 enero de 2022, Aura Minerals (USA) y MINOSA (subsidiaria Hondurena) destruyeron por completo al cemeterio de Azacualpa, exhumando ilegalmente los restos de seres querridos ahi enterrados, dejando huesos tirado en la tierra.

Rights Action supports this call, sent to us by Kathleen Ruff, for organizations to sign on a letter calling on U.S. Custom and Border Protection (Department of Homeland Security) to enforce laws to stop forced child labor in chocolate industry.

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.

Rights Action supports this call by U.S. Member of Congress Norma Torres for the U.S. Department of Justice to indict and extradite former dictator ‘President’ Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras.

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.

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.

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.