December 20, 2023
U.S. owes reparations to victims/survivors of 1989 “operation just cause” invasion of Panama
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/the-us-owes-reparations
 

"To allow any of them to pass into the comfort of forgetting would be utterly obscene."
(Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina)

January 8, 2024
Honduran Government Faces U.S. and Corporate Backlash
NACLA article by Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/honduran-govt-faces-us-corporate-backlash

“International capital has no shame in investing and supporting a president [Juan Orlando Hernandez] involved in drug trafficking. Foreign companies validated the narco-state and took advantage of the institutional weaknesses that provide a great opportunity to invest, avoid paying taxes, and have all the privileges they want.”

(Miriam Miranda, OFRANEH)

January 15, 2024
New Democratic Spring in Guatemala is because of and for Guatemalan people, a majority being Mayan peoples
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/the-new-democratic-spring-in-guatemala

February 29, 2024
8^th anniversary of assassination of Berta Caceres by U.S. & Canadian-backed Honduran narco-dictatorship
Report from COPINH
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/8th-anniversary-of-assassination-of-berta-caceres

March 2, 2024
Berta Caceres: Who She Is and What She Lived For
By Grahame Russell 
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/who-she-is-what-she-lived-for

March 18, 2024
Bitter white-washing of U.S. role in Guatemala by author of “Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala”
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/bitter-white-washing-of-us-role-in-guatemala

March 28, 2024
Juan Orlando Hernandez (former President of Honduras) found guilty in New York court of drug-trafficking
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/portrayal-of-us-canadian-supported-devastation-of-honduras
 

The Narco Trial is a clear and depressing reminder
of U.S. and Canadian-supported devastation of Honduras,
it’s government state institutions, people, and society

May 22, 2024
Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings
Progressive Magazine article by Mary Jo McConahy
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings

June 10, 2024
“Porn king” and other Canadian tourist operators in Honduras charged with money laundering and fraud related to sales of lands that belong to Garifuna communities
By Grahame Russell, June 10, 2024
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/canadian-tourist-operators-in-honduras-charged

June 12, 2024
Ixil Genocide Trial: “a clear intention to exterminate”
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/a-clear-intention-to-exterminate

September 4, 2024
Solway Investment Group (Switzerland) & Fenix Nickel Company (USA) to re-open Fenix Mine in Guatemala
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/solway-investment-group-fenix-nickel-company-to-re-open-fenix-mine-in-guatemala

60-year Nightmare of Fenix Nickel Mine to continue

• 1964-2004: INCO (Canadian owner) and EXMIBAL (subsidiary in Guatemala)
• 2004-2008: Skye Resources (Canadian, incorporated by former INCO directors) and CGN (new name of EXMIBAL)
• 2008-2011: Hudbay Minerals (Canadian, bought mine from Skye Resources) and CGN
• 2011-2022: Solway Investment Group (Swiss, bought mine from Hudbay) and CGN / PRONICO
• 2024: Solway Investment Group (Swiss) / Fenix Nickel (USA) and CGN / PRONICO

September 12, 2024
Land and rights defense work OFRANEH and Garifuna people against ethnocidal violence and corruption
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/ofraneh-garifuna-people-against-ethnocidal-violence-land-theft

October 7, 2024
Guatemalan Plaintiffs reach fair and reasonable settlement in long-standing Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/guatemalan-plaintiffs-reach-fair-and-reasonable-settlement-in-canadian-mining-lawsuits

Rights Action, the Guatemalan Plaintiffs and their lawyers in Canada are pleased to share this press release regarding lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals. The parties have agreed to a quiet period following the settlement, to allow for everyone, and in particular the Plaintiffs, to focus on getting on with their lives.

October 18, 2024
The Corporate Assault on Honduras: Mafia-style investments and the Honduran people’s struggle for democracy and dignity
Report by Jen Moore (IPS) and Karen Spring (HSN)
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/the-corporate-assault-on-honduras

October 23, 2024
Assassination of Juan Lopez, Honduran land and environment defender
Resisting mining interests of U.S. steel company NUCOR and Honduran EMCO
Article by James Phillipps
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/assassination-of-juan-lopez-resend

November 8, 2024
“Palestinians are obstacle to realization of Greater Israel as a state for Jewish Israelis only”
Day 401: U.S., Canadian, EU, Australian-backed Genocide in Palestine
Democracy Now interviews with Francesca Albanese and Naomi Klein

Connecting the dots from Guatemala to Palestine
For over 30 years, Rights Action has supported genocide survivors in Guatemala, telling the truth about and seeking justice for genocides carried out by U.S. and western-backed military regimes in the 1970s and 80s. Over 250,000 mainly Mayan boys and girls, women and men, young and old were slaughtered. The U.S. brought Britain, France, Israel, and military regimes of Argentina and Chile to arm, train and operate with the genocidal regimes.

The genocides in Guatemala were not live-streamed.

November 11, 2024
Corrupt court orders release of Guatemalan military officers accused in CREOMPAZ case of forced disappearance of at least 565 people
Articles by Prensa Comunitaria, Jo-Marie Burt, Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/corrupt-court-orders-release-of-military-officers-accused-in-creompaz-case-of-forced-disappearances

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Recommended Reading
TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
(Between The Lines, 2021), edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell

“Under The Shadow” podcast series
(A look at U.S.-led imperialism in Latin America, starting in early 1800s), by Michael Fox, with NACLA and The Real News Network

The Case for Resolution 943: Why Annulling the Monroe Doctrine Is Important
by James Phillips, June 27, 2024

The Case for Resolution 943: A Plan to Cure an Imperial Addiction
by James Phillips, July 1, 2024

“No country in Latin America has remained free from the shadow hanging over them.
The shadow of the United States. The shadow of the Monroe Doctrine.”

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