“Canada has refused to investigate whether Canadian officials bear any responsibility for my father’s murder. This case is important for all human rights and environmental defenders around the world who have the misfortune of catching the eye of Canadian mining interests.” Jose Luis Abarca (son of Mariano)

Unfettered mining expansion is Canadian and U.S. government policy

The only purpose of “elections” in Guatemala - a country ruled exploitatively, violently and corruptly by the ‘Covenant of the Corrupt’ elites - is to allow the U.S., Canada and European Community, the World Bank, IMF, Inter-American development Bank and transnational corporations to state publicly that they maintain economic, military and political relations with the “democratic government” of Guatemala.

A slow, business-driven genocide against the Garífuna indigenous people of northern Honduras continues 

UNBC-Rights Action Experiential Learning Trip in Guatemala
May 9 – 23, 2023

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.

Last year, TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala was a finalist for the “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”.

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