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10th Anniversary U.S.-backed General Efrain Rios Montt found guilty on May 10, 2013, of crime of genocide in Guatemala
At 6:45pm, May 10, 2013, general Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. A courageous, precedent-setting achievement – globally and historically, all the more so as repression and racism, corruption and impunity continue systemically today in Guatemala, ruled by a military-backed, genocide-denying government.
A Hard, Normal Day in Guatemala, Under Boot of the Pacto de Corruptos
As anti-migrant violence continues to explode on both sides of U.S.-Mexico border, I am in Guatemala to coordinate a two-week fact-finding delegation to learn more about the root causes of forced migrancy and refugee flight.
We Recommend: DemocracyNow! Segment on Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate and Violence with Jennifer Harbury
Update from South Texas, where eight people were killed and at least 10 more injured Sunday in Brownsville after a driver rammed his SUV into a group of people near a shelter for migrants. The incident comes just days before the Trump-era Title 42 policy is set to expire and more migrants are expected to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border.
What change has TESTIMONIO provoked in Canadian society?
Last year, TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala was a finalist for the “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”.
“Guatemala is Designed for Impunity”
Newsweek Magazine Reveals U.S. Government and Canadian Company Plot to Take Control of Nickel Mine on Maya Q’eqchi’ Land : Plaintiffs in Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits Face Alarming Health and Food Security Situation
Discovery Doctrine to Monroe Doctrine
Providing legal-ideological-moral ‘justification’ for western European imperialism, colonialism and creation of settler colonialist states, through to 200 years of U.S. imperialism and interventions in the Americas
“Sing Your Song” : Remembering and thanking Harry Belafonte
Rights Action recommends Democracy Now!’s 3-part report honoring the life, vision, work and resistance struggles of Harry Belafonte.
On-going jailing of judges, lawyers and prosecutors by U.S. and Canadian-backed ‘Pacto de Corruptos’ (Covenant of Corrupt) regime in Guatemala
For the Guatemalan ‘pacto de corruptos’ regime, the legal system is a tool of repression to be used not only against land and environmental defenders, but also against judges, prosecutors and lawyers who working honestly on war crimes and organized crime investigations and trials, all of which implicate the economic, military and political elites that comprise the ‘pacto de corruptos’.
“Sacrifice Zones for the Rich, Powerful and White Society”
Brandi Morin writes of Alberta oilsands toxic discharges into First Nations water supplies
Berta Soy Yo / I Am Berta Who assassinated Berta Caceres, and why?
Two showings in Chicago, April 21 & 23