Update from South Texas, where eight people were killed and at least 10 more injured Sunday in Brownsville after a driver rammed his SUV into a group of people near a shelter for migrants. The incident comes just days before the Trump-era Title 42 policy is set to expire and more migrants are expected to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border.

Last year, TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala was a finalist for the “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”.

Newsweek Magazine Reveals U.S. Government and Canadian Company Plot to Take Control of Nickel Mine on Maya Q’eqchi’ Land : Plaintiffs in Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits Face Alarming Health and Food Security Situation

Providing legal-ideological-moral ‘justification’ for western European imperialism, colonialism and creation of settler colonialist states, through to 200 years of U.S. imperialism and interventions in the Americas

Rights Action recommends Democracy Now!’s 3-part report honoring the life, vision, work and resistance struggles of Harry Belafonte.

For the Guatemalan ‘pacto de corruptos’ regime, the legal system is a tool of repression to be used not only against land and environmental defenders, but also against judges, prosecutors and lawyers who working honestly on war crimes and organized crime investigations and trials, all of which implicate the economic, military and political elites that comprise the ‘pacto de corruptos’.

Brandi Morin writes of Alberta oilsands toxic discharges into First Nations water supplies

Two showings in Chicago, April 21 & 23

Le peuple maya Q’eqchi’ semble condamné à souffrir encore davantage de violations aux droits de la personne et d’expulsions, ainsi que des dommages environnementaux et de la corruption, causés par une autre compagnie minière transnationale qui exploite une mine illégitime sur des terres volées.

The U.S. and Canada maintain full economic, military and political relations with Guatemala a “democratic allie”, condemning the majority population to endless exploitation and poverty, repression, corruption and impunity