On April 21, 2022, a plane with 6 DEA agents landed at the Toncontín airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. An hour later, they left with former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (“JOH”) on board, on their way to New York where he will face trial.

Maria Choc - sister-in-law of killed community defender Adolfo Ich, sister of Angelica Choc, sister of Ramiro Choc (spent 6 years in jail as a political prisoner – goes to court today, again, to face corrupted criminal charges for her land, rights and environmental defense work.

“We are being denied our right to know the truth about the pressure the Canadian embassy exerted on Mexican authorities and how that could have played a role in the brutal murder of my father.”
(Jose Luis Abarca, son of murdered Mariano Abarca)

The “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes” is awarded “to the author(s) and/or illustrators of an original work of published writing (poetry, fiction or nonfiction for adults or children, including graphic novels or picture books) that challenges or provokes the ideas and forces that shape what writing, art, and/or society can become.” https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/categories-and-criteria/jim-deva-prize-for-writing-that-provokes/

Below, a moving and detailed Washington Post article about the work of the ICE Office for Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center pursuing war criminals, many being former US allies living in the US.

The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) rejected submissions concerning well-documented and rampant human rights abuses at Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala, claiming that they needed to verify and vet the sources in “Testimonio: Canadian Mines in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”, a book twice vetted by libel, defamation lawyers before publication in October 2021 by Between The Lines.

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To date in 2022, Rights Action has sent $90,000 of your donations to support human rights and justice struggles, land, territory and environmental defense struggles, and emergency response work in Honduras and Guatemala, and also in El Salvador.

“Why is it important for the public to know what this mining company is doing?
It’s important that the people of the so-called ‘global north’ know that they are part of this genocide, of this terracide, and that every privilege they have and their quality of life necessarily means the annihilation of other beings and of other lands.”

Rights Action comparte este articulo de Guacamaya, responsable por acceso a miles y miles de documentos internos de la compania Suisa-Rusa Solway Investment Group, y sus filiales PRONICO y CGN.

The Hidden Story of a Notorious Guatemalan Nickel Mine