Bluestone Resources (of Canada) announced they received a permit on January 9, 2024, from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and out-going government of President Alejandro Giammattei, to operate a widely opposed, environmentally devastating, open-pit, cyanide leaching gold mine in the municipality of Asuncion Mita, Guatemala, along the El Salvador border.

TESTIMONIO: Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala,
and (now) in the Aftermath of Historic Elections

May 4-12, 2024

January 14, 2024 marks only the third time in the country’s history that an actually democratic government has taken power. It marks the beginning of the country’s second Democratic Spring.

Guatemala’s Presidential Inauguration Is A Big Deal

Ex-Honduran President Drug Trafficking Trial

Campaign Launch
Putting U.S. and Canada ‘on trial' for over 12 years (2009-2022) of full political, economic, military relations with military-backed, drug trafficking regimes in Honduras

Article by Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network
Campaign: U.S. and Canada-backed Narco-State on Trial in New York

Rights Action – 2023/2024

As 2023 comes to a close and we look back at the year, we thank you for your continued trust and support for us and our work, and thus the communities we work with in Central America.

"To allow any of them to pass into the comfort of forgetting would be utterly obscene."
(Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina)