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Embattled Azacualpa community continues to resist ever-expanding, destructive mine of U.S. gold company Aura Minerals
“Aura Minerals/MINOSA has demonstrated its ability to operate with total impunity, corrupting municipal authorities, prosecutors, judges and State ministers in order to crush community resistance through persecution, harassment, criminalization and militarization.”
Los supervivientes Garífunas de los Cayos Cochinos, Honduras
Los supervivientes Garífunas de los Cayos Cochinos, Honduras
Rights Action recomienda esta historia sobre el racismo, la represión y el robo de tierras contra el pueblo indígena Garífuna de Honduras, sobre el imperialismo económico del turismo (incluyendo el Supervivientes « reality TV » programa en Espana), y sobre la corrupción y la represión de los sucesivos regímenes ‘Open-For-Global-Business’ respaldados por Estados Unidos, Canadá y Europa y las élites económicas locales en el poder.
Garifuna survivors of the Cayos Cochinos
Rights Action recommends this story about racism, repression and land-theft against the indigenous Garifuna people of Honduras, about tourism economic imperialism (including the Supervivientes Spain “reality” TV show), and about the corruption and repression of successive U.S., Canadian and European-backed ‘open-for-global-business’ regimes in power.
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.