“People are on to Pan American Silver’s business model – profit at all cost with blatant disregard for self-determination of Indigenous communities”
Angus Wong, Senior Campaign Manager with SumOfUs.

Forced migrants and refugees from Central America are again in the news. Most of the victims of the gruesome tractor-trailer death in Texas are from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

As Rights Action chips away, supporting land and environmental defense, and human rights and justice struggles in Honduras and Guatemala – two counties long violently dominated by the exploitative interests of their ruling elites in partnership with the US, Canadian and European governments, the World Bank, IMF and global investors and companies, we forward this information about Haiti, arguably the country in the Americas that has been the most violently and exploitatively abused by the “international community” – particularly France, US and more recently Canada, from the date of Haitian independence in 1804.

~Always follow the money~

Consider listening to this interview with author Stephen Kinzer - a refresher course on US interventions around the world on behalf of U.S. and western economic interests.

FAMDEGUA
Asociación Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala
Association of Relatives of the Disappeared-Detained in Guatemala

“El Derecho a la vida, es la base de todo derecho”

“This is an important advance but the masterminds of the crime are still enjoying impunity thanks to their political and economic power. As victims of this crime, we, her family, members of Copinh and the Lenca people, will continue demanding justice from the Honduran state.”
(Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, daughter of Berta)

"We return to the issue of instrumentalizing criminal law, making the law a monopoly of a group of people. In this context, justice is a matter of power and not control of power. This is worrying, because it means that we are spectators of how a country is going down the drain”

Below: Article by Karen Spring, spring.kj@gmail.com

Greetings. I just finished an 18 day trip, mainly in the mining-harmed territories of the Maya Q’eqchi’ people in eastern Guatemala.

As I was completing this report / funding appeal, yet another Q’eqchi’ land and rights defender – Cristobal Pop (who Rights Action has been supporting since 2017) – has been (arbitrarily, of course) jailed.