Report By Karen Spring, Honduras Now

25 Garifuna Land and Rights Defenders Assassinated in Last 3 Years
Radio Progreso news update, 02/14/2023

Dinant Corporation – controlled by the Facusse family, Honduras’ most powerful land barons – is the leading consumer goods business specializing in the for-export production of African palm oil. (https://www.dinant.com/)

Help the “La Puya” communities defend land and water sources from dirty gold mining project of U.S. company KCA.

Over the next months, Rights Action will cover the “elections” in Guatemala, that will, once again, legitimize a repressive, military-backed, ‘open for global business’ regime as a “democratic allie” of the U.S. and Canadian-led “international community”, including the World Bank and many global businesses, banks and investors.

Rights Action is co-sponsoring this webinar, and invites all to join the discussion with Ben Norton, Eliana Carlin Ronquillo, Yves Engler and Kirsten Francescone on the uprising in Peru and the role of Canada and the U.S.

The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective is kicking off a divestment campaign related to Aura Minerals and its U.S.-partner companies Asahi Refining USA and Auramet.

"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."

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.