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40 Years in Prison for Guatemalan Publisher-Journalist José Rubén Zamora?
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”.

Courageous, Maya Achi-led struggle: Justice for Rancho Bejuco massacre
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.

Portrait of a Courageous Indigenous Land and Rights Defender in Guatemala
Trying to use the corrupted electoral system to resist the illegal, violent incursions of global mining companies onto Q’eqchi’ territories.

Canadian impunity and corruption shroud mining-linked killing of Mexican land defender Mariano Abarca
“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)

Geopolitics of nickel and rare earths in Guatemala
Unfettered mining expansion is Canadian and U.S. government policy

The only purpose of “elections” in Guatemala
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.

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

Geographies of Culture, Rights & Power: The Global Order, Injustice and Resistance in Guatemala
UNBC-Rights Action Experiential Learning Trip in Guatemala
May 9 – 23, 2023

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.