Below: An article about a new series of reports from 20 international media outlets about mining linked corruption infiltrating the highest levels of the Guatemalan state and government

While millions of impoverished, mainly Indigenous Guatemalans eek out subsistence lives on dry, poor lands, the global sugar industry monopolizes (corruptly and violently) virtually all the richest lands in the country, producing sugar cane with high levels of worker exploitation and environmental destruction, to provide consumers in wealthy countries with “low cost” sugar products.

The Federal Court just ruled that the Canadian government is not required to disclose details about its secretive, corrupt and probably illegal diplomatic interventions on behalf of Goldcorp Inc., now Newmont Gold, operating its very harmful open-pit, cyanide leaching gold mine in Mayan territories of western Guatemala from 2004-2018.

Sexto aniversario de su asesinato por el régimen hondureño respaldado por Estados Unidos y Canadá

6th anniversary of her assassination by U.S. and Canadian-backed Honduran regime

"As we think globally and act locally, we must also think locally and act globally."

ALERTA, 22 febrero 2022
Bufete Estudios Para la Dignidad
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ALERTA, 22 febrero 2022
Bufete Estudios Para la Dignidad
@bufetedignidad

Below: Yves Engler writes about a new report - “Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy” - by the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), detailing Canadian government efforts to overturn a legally binding order issued by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission for Goldcorp to suspend its destructive, harmful mining operation in Mayan territories of western Guatemala, and to cover up human rights violations and environmental harms that Goldcorp Inc. was causing.