As the Hudbay lawsuits proceed in their 14th year in Canadian courts, Rights Action continues to provide small grants to the 13 plaintiffs who have forever lived at a subsistence poverty level in a normal, let alone when extra harms occur.
Read moreOjala - Bilingual, on-line weekly dedicated to going deeper on issues of concern in Latin America →
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Read moreIxil Genocide Trial: There was “a clear intention to exterminate” →
This extraordinary Genocide Trial in Guatemala is receiving little to no media coverage in US, Canada and Western Europe, most 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.
Read moreDon’t look away from Palestine →
Rights Action urges folks in the US and Canada to get involved / stay involved in work and activism related to Israel’s ethnic cleansing, genocidal attack on Palestine that is supported and legitimized by the US and Canada, Germany, Britain, France and other EU countries, and Australia. This is “our” issue in the US and Canada. Here, a few recent reports …
Read moreCanadian 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.
Read moreGenocide 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)
Read moreEmergency 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
Life conditions worsen in Central American Dry Corridor, increasingly vulnerable to global climate changes resulting from human behavior
Read moreBluestone 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.
Read moreIs 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.
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