Rights Action remembers and honors Adolfo Ich Chaman, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ environmental, territorial, human rights defender, killed September 27, 2009, by private security guards working in the mining industry.

It is hard to overstate the complicity of this U.S. and Canadian-led “international community”, maintaining mutually beneficial economic, political and military relations with these types of “democratic allie” governments, ignoring or even lying about how repressive, exploitative and corrupt they are.

Kickstarter fund-raising campaign for new podcast series by Michael Fox, in co-production with NACLA / The Real News

Lawyer Claudia Gonzalez illegally imprisoned
Corruption of entire Guatemalan legal & political system in plain sight

Democracy in Guatemala?
Commentary by Brisna Caxaj-Rowe, a survivor of Guatemalan repression

On-going ethnocide against Garifuna people on Honduras’s Caribbean shore  

President-elect Bernardo Arevalo calls on population to defend democracy  

Three months, 26 days until January 14, 2024 transfer of power

“Coup plotters must resign”
President-elect Bernardo Arevalo suspends government transition
after electoral tribunal facilities illegally raided

Democratically-elected government of President Xiomara Castro is trying to chart a new direction for Honduras, free from the exploitation, corruption and violence the traditional ruling elites and their partners in the U.S.-led “international community”