Like thousands of Guatemalans before him, over the past few years, Jose Ruben Zamora has been criminalized and jailed by the U.S., Canadian and western-backed “covenant of the corrupt”, ‘open-for-global-business’ regime in power, a “democratic allie”.

41 years later, Maya Achi people are trying to use the corrupted Guatemalan legal system to seek justice for 1982 Rancho Bejuco massace committed by the U.S.-and western-backed military regime, as Guatemala is ruled repressively today by U.S. and western-backed ‘Covenant of the Corrupt’ regime.

Trying to use the corrupted electoral system to resist the illegal, violent incursions of global mining companies onto Q’eqchi’ territories.

“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

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.