28 Years, Supporting One Community Defense, Human Rights, Justice Struggle at a Time

It has been nearly one year since Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras’s new president. Her inauguration in January marked the end of a brutal 12-year period of rule by the U.S.-[and Canadian] backed, right-wing National Party, which first came to power after the 2009 U.S.-[and Canadian] backed coup that overthrew Castro’s husband, the leftist President Manuel Zelaya.

We recommend reading the article below by Pamela Yates.

“It has been 30 years of struggle against corruption and impunity, against governmental abuses and terrorism,
in favor of freedom transparency and accountability” (El Periodico director Ruben Zamora, final editorial, written from prison cell)

In the 1990s, Alfredo spent over 6 years as a political prisoner in Honduran jails for his work and activism in defense of Garifuna land and human rights, threated by corrupt, violent for-export African palm producers and international tourism operators.

Rights Action is heartened to see this lawsuit filed in Canada, against Barrick Gold, 2nd largest gold mining company in the world. Meanwhile, we continue with our support for the Maya Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs in the landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits, first filed in 2010, trying to hold Hudbay accountable in Ontario, Canada courts for mining-linked violence in Guatemala.

Rights Action encourages folks to attend this webinar with the La Puya resistance struggle in Guatemala.

We recommend two recent podcast episodes from Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast.

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday. This year we are fundraising to support OFRANEH and the Garifuna land defenders and people in Honduras.