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Corruption and Impunity Characterize Guatemalan State and Government
Traditional elites maintain next to complete corrupt control over institutions of the State and branches of government
CBC and Its Normalization of Genocide
“The West, the Global North, has allowed this “monumental savagery” to become entirely normalized”
From Palestine to Venezuela, Macdonald Stainsby reflects on the times of US-led, western imperialism and deceit we are living in
As Rights Action continues our funding for and support of human rights and justice, environment and land defense struggles in Guatemala and Honduras, we remain clear in our understanding that these are not and never have been “national” issues.
U.S. and Canadian try to undermine Venezuelan democracy, again
Below, three articles about the so-called “democracy battle” in Venezuela.
U.S. jury finds that Chiquita Banana financed death squads in Colombia. Victims win historic verdict
“This historic ruling marks the first time that an American jury has held a major U.S. corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses in another country, a milestone for justice. This verdict sends a powerful message to corporations everywhere: profiting from human rights abuses will not go unpunished. These families, victimized by armed groups and corporations, asserted their power and prevailed in the judicial process,”
(Marco Simons, EarthRights International General Counsel)
Rights Action Newsletter - July 2024
An extraordinary trial is taking place in Guatemalan courts, to hold former Guatemalan Army Chief of Staff Manuel Benedicto Lucas García accountable for the crime of genocide. The trial is receiving little to no media coverage in the US, Canada and Western Europe, likely because the genocides in Guatemala were supported and enabled by the US (primarily) and to a lesser extent by Western Europe (Britain and France, notably) and Canada.
New documentary film: ‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
Not Breaking News (July 6, 2024)
16 killed in Israeli attack on UNRWA-run school
Exposing, denouncing and challenging the Monroe Doctrine
Rights Action shares this excellent two-part article by James Phillips, to expose again the fundamental imperialism of the US and ‘the West’, past and present.
45 years in jail: Former U.S. & Canadian-backed, drug-trafficking President of Honduras
It is impossible overstate how complicit the U.S. and Canada are in having supported, enabled and legitimized for close to 13 years the repressive, “open for global business”, drug-trafficking regime headed by former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, sentenced on June 26 to 45 years on charges of drug-trafficking.