In one of Guatemala’s longest, hottest dry seasons on record, with drought conditions devastating the lives of a majority of Guatemalans and all life species, the Swiss-based Solway Investment Group and US-based Fenix Nickel Company are pushing to re-initiate the Fenix mining operation on Maya Q’eqchi’ territories of eastern Guatemala.

Rights Action supports this call of the Maya Q’eqchi’ people of El Estor, Guatemala

Progressive Magazine article by Mary Jo McConahy

El Estor, Izabal, 14 de mayo de 2024

“I felt relieved that I was no longer complicit in the manufacturing of consent for a genocidal war of revenge.”

“The world of the colonizer and imperialist is the parasite. The so-called Western world is the aberration”

Delegation update #1
Mining in the aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala

Mass graves that are filled with slaughtered Palestinian babies and children, boys and girls, women and men?

Prensa Comunitaria: the corrupted Constitutional Court just named its new President, someone included on U.S. government’s “Engel’s List” of corrupt individuals

Prensa Comunitaria: on-going illegal detention of Ruben Zamora, journalist, founder and former director of the elPeriodico newspaper

“We were fighting a huge monster, and we couldn’t stop them”
Salomon Bamaca