While the US government is the #1 propper-upper of repressive, exploitative, open-for-global-business regimes in Honduras (and elsewhere in Latin America), other governments and economic actors in the self-annointed “international community” participate in and benefit from the propping up the same corrupt and repressive, anti-democratic regimes.

Despite corruption and organized crime infiltrating all branches of the Guatemalan government, state and judiciary, governments and actors in the “international community” – notably the US, Canadian and European Community governments, the World Bank, IMF and IDB, and transnational companies in the sectors of mining and resource extraction, for-export food production – maintain full political, economic and military relations with Guatemala, calling it a “democratic ally”.

"The community consultation carried out by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines was carried out illegally."
(Rafael Maldonado, lawyer for Maya Q’eqchi’ complainants)

"The community consultation carried out by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines was carried out illegally."
(Rafael Maldonado, lawyer for Maya Q’eqchi’ complainants)

Who will investigate the USA, Canada and Spain, the World Bank, IDB and IMF, and transnational corporations (mining, African palm, bananas, maquilas, tourism) - that all maintained beneficial relations with 12 years and 7 months of these "democratic allies" in Honduras, including the theft of three fraudulent and violent elections (2009, 2013, 2017)?

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)

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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.