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Canadian tourist operators in Honduras charged with money laundering and fraud related to sales of lands that actually belong to Indigenous Garifuna communities
In Honduras, three Canadian citizens (Randy “porn king” Jorgensen, Malik Zoharan and Darren Wade) have been charged with money laundering and fraud related to sales to other Canadian tourist investors of lands that actually have been violently and corruptly taken from the Garifuna people for decades.
Genocide trial continues in Guatemala, seeking justice for U.S. and Western-backed genocidal killings in 1980s
Below: Update from Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)

Emergency food plan for Maya Achi communities in Rabinal, Guatemala, located in Dry Corridor crossing Central America
Life conditions worsen in Central American Dry Corridor, increasingly vulnerable to global climate changes resulting from human behavior

Bluestone Resources pushing hard to operate cyanide-leaching gold mine, exacerbating water depletion and forced migrancy
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

A measure of justice for Honduran victims of US-backed military atrocities in the 1980s?
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.
Is 60-year mining nightmare set to continue for Maya Q’eqchi’ people in sacrifice zone of Guatemala?
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.

Urgent call for suspension of Fenix mining operations and reparations for long-suffering Maya Q’qchi’ people in El Estor, Guatemala
Rights Action supports this call of the Maya Q’eqchi’ people of El Estor, Guatemala

Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings
Progressive Magazine article by Mary Jo McConahy

Pronunciamiento del Consejo Ancestral Maya Q’eqchi’ ante la posible reactivación de la mina Fénix en El Estor, Guatemala
El Estor, Izabal, 14 de mayo de 2024

CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza
“I felt relieved that I was no longer complicit in the manufacturing of consent for a genocidal war of revenge.”