En horas de la noche, jueves 20 enero de 2022, Aura Minerals (USA) y MINOSA (subsidiaria Hondurena) destruyeron por completo al cemeterio de Azacualpa, exhumando ilegalmente los restos de seres querridos ahi enterrados, dejando huesos tirado en la tierra.

Rights Action supports this call, sent to us by Kathleen Ruff, for organizations to sign on a letter calling on U.S. Custom and Border Protection (Department of Homeland Security) to enforce laws to stop forced child labor in chocolate industry.

Recently, Goldcorp Inc. – one of the companies highlighted in the “Testimonio” – was bought out by Newmont Corporation (based in Greenwood Colorado), the world’s largest gold mining company, that now owns Goldcorp’s mining assets – ill-gotten licenses and processing plants – in Honduras and Guatemala, where there are on-going struggles for reparations for harms and violence caused by Goldcorp’s cyanide leaching, open pit mines they operated in both countries.

More important than ‘admitting failure’, the real questions are when will there be legal and political accountability in the U.S. and Canada for government policies and actions to illegally and violently help overthrow legitimate governments of other countries?

Rights Action supports this call by U.S. Member of Congress Norma Torres for the U.S. Department of Justice to indict and extradite former dictator ‘President’ Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras.

Yet another crimes against humanity trial is taking place in Guatemala. Maya Achi women – surviving victims of massacres, disappearances, torture and sexual violence and sex slavery - are courageously, with their lawyers and supporters, seeking justice against former civil defense patrollers and military commissioners who carried out the acts of sexual violence.

As the US and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez continues in power until the Jan.27, 2022 transition of power to the democratically elected President Xiomara Castro, US-based mining company Aura Minerals seemingly is taken advantage of corruption and repression right to the end of the military-backed, drug-trafficking regime’s time in power.

In Honduras and Guatemala, Rights Action supports community groups trying to oust corrupt, repressive regimes - “democratic allies” of the US, Canada and EU, World Bank and IMF, global companies and banks.

Even as the Honduran people overcame electoral fraud and repression to end 12 years and 5 months of a US and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking military regime, huge work remains to seek justice for the political crimes of this “democratic ally” of the US and Canada, including the March 2, 2016 assassination of Berta Caceres. Will justice be done for the Atala Zablah family, who allegedly ordered and paid for the killing of Berta?