In the mountains of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, the Asociacion de Comites de Produccion Comunitaria (ACPC) works home to home, village to village, to re-build community self-sufficiency in the aftermath of the Guatemalan State genocide against the Maya Achi people in the 1980s. The 1999, UN Truth Commission concluded that the US-backed Guatemalan military carried out genocide against for Maya regions of the country, including the Achi people of Rabinal.

26 years after the signing of the so-called “Peace Accords”, Guatemala continues to be ruled by exploitative, repressive business elites and corrupt, military-backed governments that are “democratic allies” of and maintain full military/ economic/ political relations with the U.S., Canada and so-called international community.

Guatemala's top anti-corruption prosecutor was forced to flee the country. This follows on threats against and forced ouster of other judges and public prosecutors; that follows upon the forced ouster of CICIG (the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala).

Guatemala continues to be a very profitable place to do business for global food-export, mining, hydro-electric energy and garment ‘sweatshop’ companies, and remains a staunch “democratic allie” of the U.S. and Canada.

Solway Investment Group y CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel) siguen operando ilegalmente a la mina Fenix, con el pleno apoyo del gobierno de Guatemala y del Municipio de El Estor

In a profoundly deceitful statement, Antony Blinken, head of U.S. State Department, said: "Corrupt acts of former Honduran President Lobo undermined democracy in Honduras. … We stand #UnitedAgainstCorruption with our partners in Honduras."

The four men – Garifuna land defenders - were forcibly disappeared from their families and community by agents of the military-backed, drug-trafficking Honduran government that (ever since the 2009 coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government) maintains full economic and military relations with the US, Canada and European Union, World Bank, IDB and IMF, and many global companies and investors.

“In the last two years alone, more than forty Garifuna have been murdered and a large number of others have fled their communities due to threats, criminalization and persecution.”
Miriam Miranda, General Coordinator of OFRANEH

This is how hard justice is in Honduras, controlled by the U.S. and Canadian-backed corrupt, military-supported regime. The intellectual authors and financial backers of this assassination, in all likelihood members of the wealthy Atala Zablah family, remain free.