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Iron ore mining and murder in Honduras: New government, same violent global economic order
"It is with great sadness and a cry for justice that we denounce today's murders of Guapinol community human rights defenders and fathers Aly Domínguez and Jairo Bonilla. Aly, brother of our comrade Reynaldo Dominguez, is also one of 32 people criminalized by the mining company Inversiones Los Pinares and the State of Honduras for defending the Carlos Escaleras National Park against their illegal mining project."
Canadian mining in the aftermath of military-backed regime change in Peru
Coup d’etat in Peru, December 7, 2022. Illegitimate, military-backed government takes power. Various regions of the country are militarized. Over 50 protesters have been killed so far, and counting.
Help stop ethnocide and forced displacement of Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people in Honduras
Take Action: Support U.S. Congress member Bush's Resolution in solidarity with rights of Garifuna people in Honduras
Chixoy Dam / Rio Negro Massacres in Guatemala Make the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Pay!
Chixoy International Financial Institution Reparations Act of 2022
In December 2022, U.S. Members of Congress Jesús García, Jan Schakowsky, Ilhan Omar, Mark Pocan and Raúl Grijalva introduced the “Chixoy International Financial Institution Reparations Act of 2022”.
When will the U.S. pay reparations to survivors of 1000s of victims of the 1989 “operation just cause” invasion of Panama?
"To allow any of them to pass into the comfort of forgetting would be utterly obscene."
(Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina)
December 2022 Newsletter
28 Years, Supporting One Community Defense, Human Rights, Justice Struggle at a Time
Update on Honduras, One Year After Election of President Xiomara Castro
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.
The Power and Vision of Rigoberta Menchu
We recommend reading the article below by Pamela Yates.
El Periodico newspaper shut down in Guatemala, its director jailed on malicious charges
“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)
Garifuna Land & Rights Defender Receiving Death Threats in Honduras
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.