Life conditions worsen in Central American Dry Corridor, increasingly vulnerable to global climate changes resulting from human behavior

As Central America’s hottest, longest dry season in recent memory drags on, Canadian company Bluestone Resources pushes aggressively to operate a cyanide-leaching, open-pit gold mine, threatening the water supply for millions of Guatemalans and Salvadorans

• Below, a Michael Fox/ TRUTHOUT article

After suffering 13 years under the boot of the US and Canadian-backed “Open for global business” Narco Regime from 2009-2022, the Honduran government led by President Xiomara Castro continues with small steps to chart a new direction for the country, including presenting a bill to Congress to establish a reparations program for victims of the US-backed military regimes of the 1980s.

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”