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Journalist Ruben Zamora jailed by narco-klepto dictatorship in Guatemala
Below: New York Times article
Using the law as a weapon of repression, the corrupt, pro-global capitalist regime in Guatemala arrested Ruben Zamora, the latest defender of democracy and rule of law, human rights and justice, land and the environment to be ‘criminalized’.
Honduran gov’t working to remedy devastating legacy of 12 years of U.S. & Canadian-backed narco-regime
Shortly after President Xiomara Castro won the November 27, 2021 elections, putting a political end to 12 years and 7 months of the corrupt, repressive Honduran narco-regime, I wrote:
Border and Rule Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
“Colonial coups, capitalist trade agreements, climate change & oppression
[are] the primary driver of displacement from Mexico & Central America”
Finalist for “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”
TESTIMONIO
Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
What does TESTIMONIO provoke?
Summit of Peoples in Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru Harmed Pan American Silver
Pan American Silver - Premier violator of rights in mining harmed communities of Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico & Peru
Does Canadian government “always stand up for human rights” in Guatemala?
If so, will the Canadian government initiate an impartial investigation into systemic human rights violations (including killings and rape) linked to Canadian mining operations in Guatemala?
Death threats linked to US mining company Aura Minerals in Honduras
Fredy Garcia, a land and human rights defender from Azacualpa, Honduras, is in danger for opposing the transnational mining company Aura Minerals/MINOSA. People have been showing up at this home, looking for him and threatening him.
Pan American Silver (formerly Tahoe Resources) silencing dissenting voices at Annual Shareholder Meeting
“People are on to Pan American Silver’s business model – profit at all cost with blatant disregard for self-determination of Indigenous communities”
Angus Wong, Senior Campaign Manager with SumOfUs.
53 forced migrants and refugees die gruesome death in Texas No focus on, no blame put on global nation state system and global capitalist, neoliberal economic system
Forced migrants and refugees from Central America are again in the news. Most of the victims of the gruesome tractor-trailer death in Texas are from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
"What the World Owes Haiti Now"
As Rights Action chips away, supporting land and environmental defense, and human rights and justice struggles in Honduras and Guatemala – two counties long violently dominated by the exploitative interests of their ruling elites in partnership with the US, Canadian and European governments, the World Bank, IMF and global investors and companies, we forward this information about Haiti, arguably the country in the Americas that has been the most violently and exploitatively abused by the “international community” – particularly France, US and more recently Canada, from the date of Haitian independence in 1804.