For a majority of Guatemalans, 2020 has been a year of devastating suffering and death due to COVID-19 and Hurricanes ETA and IOTA, suffering and death that were immeasurably increased by the utter lack of support from the fundamentally shitty Guatemalan government that continues to participate in Canada-led “Lima Group” meetings in support of US-led efforts to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
Read moreHurricane IOTA hitting Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala →
Only the people help people
Solo el pueblo apoya al pueblo
Solo el pueblo apoya al pueblo →
Hurricane ETA tore across regions of Honduras & Guatemala, exacerbating pre-existing impoverishment and racism, violence and abandonment, and corruption and impunity of the government and economic elites.
Read moreRights Action’s Hurricane Eta emergency fund →
Mudslides, flooding rivers and torrential rains are devastating already impoverished, discriminated communities in Honduras & Guatemala
Read moreDemand return of five Garifuna land & rights defenders Disappeared by U.S. & Canadian-backed Honduran regime →
Rights Action joins the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) in support for demand of the Garifuna people in Honduras for the return of five Garifuna land/rights defenders forcibly disappeared on July 18, 2020 by the U.S. and Canadian-backed Honduran regime.
Read moreThe face of America has always been the face of Donald Trump →
Article by Wallace Shawn, The New York Review
“But for those countless others, in the cities and towns of the USA and in countries far away,
to whom America has not been good,
the face of America has always and forever been the face of Donald Trump.”
Guatemala’s military-backed, racist and exploitative regime – an open-for-global-business “democratic allie” of Canada and U.S. – is blocking war crimes trials and justice struggles →
Article by Sandra Cuffe, Vice News, October 28, 2020
Read moreIllegal regime change efforts with a “human rights” face: Prime Minister Trudeau’s imperialist Venezuela policy →
Rights Action shares this op-ed piece by Venezuela’s Foreign Minister. This was published just after a big majority of Bolivians took back and restored their democracy, after the U.S. and Canadian-backed military ouster of President Evo Morales in 2019.
Read moreElena Choc Quib has died
Killed by cancer, and by the indifference, power and wealth of a faraway Canadian mining company, its investors and government supporters
Read moreJailing the Guapinol mining-resistance defenders in Honduras →
Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries to defend human rights, land and the environment, ever since the 2009 U.S. and Canadian-backed coup brought to power a repressive, pro-business regime, still in power due to systemic repression and electoral fraud, links to international businesses and organized crime, and to corruption and impunity.
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