Honduran migrants are caught between economic despair and militarized crackdowns
By Sandra Cuffe, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 3, 2020
Lote Ocho women file sexual violence criminal complaint against CGN mining company in Guatemala →
CGN, owned today by Solway Investment Group of Switzerland, was owned by Canadian Skye Resources at time of the sexual violence against Mayan Q’eqchi’ villagers in 2007
Read moreOntario court rejects Hudbay Minerals appeal in Lote Ocho sexual violence lawsuit →
“Mr. Wanless, I do not need to hear from you”, said Judge Fred Myers of the Ontario Superior Court during the September 30, 2020 Hudbay Minerals lawsuit hearing, indicating he had no need to listen to arguments from lawyers for the plaintiffs Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein.
Read moreLote Ocho sexual violence victims speak →
“The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the alleged gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was allegedly gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.””
Read moreLote Ocho gang-rapes & violent evictions - How a Canadian mining company infiltrated the Guatemalan State →
~ In depth article from The Intercept, by Max Binks-Collier ~
Read more11th Anniversary - Killing of Adolfo Ich Chaman Landmark lawsuits continue in Canada, seeking justice for this, and other Hudbay Minerals-linked repression
Rights Action remembers and honors Adolfo Ich Chaman, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ environmental, territorial, human rights defender, assassinated September 27, 2009, by Hudbay Mineral’s security guards
Read moreHudbay Minerals lawsuits September 30, 2020, hearing Archives & Photo Gallery
For reasons related to Covid-19, the landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits were suspended earlier this year.
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, 10am
The lawsuits will continue, with a ‘virtual hearing’ in Toronto. (We are seeking information as to whether the public will be able to listen, ‘virtually’.)
Inequality is the pandemic
These are tough times for many people across the planet, particularly in countries of the global south, like Guatemala and Honduras. Tough times caused by the “normal pandemics” of poverty and exploitation, racism and discriminations, violence and dispossession, corruption and impunity, and the unequal nation-state system – all now worsened by Covid19.
Read moreTucson Star article: US & Canada support Honduran drug trafficking regime that forces many to migrate →
“What Hondurans long suspected and Americans later found out was that the president of Honduras, who has functional control of all branches of government, is also deeply implicated in drug trafficking to the United States. … Not surprisingly, a country run by organized crime became consumed by [drug trafficking] from top to bottom.”
“The United States has protected corrupt politicians, the United States has protected drug traffickers,” said Bartolo Fuentes, a one-time member of Congress and migrant-rights activist who lives in El Progreso, Honduras. “They know (President Hernandez) is a criminal, but he is servile. Whatever they ask, he does.”
The Ancestral Maya City of El Mirador is not for sale →
“Indigenous peoples have faced many attempts at annihilation!
But we have resisted. We are alive. We say:
Yes, we are eternal, we will resurge again.”