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June 19, 2025


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Go Fund Me Campaign: Journalist Jaren Olson
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Rights Action encourages folks and organizations to follow and consider supporting the work of journalist Jaren Olson.
* Jared’s GoFundMe campaign: [link removed]

Over the years, Rights Action has shared a number of articles and reports that Jared has produced, particularly those over-lapping with our work in Honduras. Read about Jared's work and campaign in his own words below.

Support Jared Olson’ Investigative Journalism ([link removed])

Hello! Q’onda! My name is Jared Olson, and I’m a writer and independent investigative journalist based in Mexico. For over four years I’ve reported on human rights, corruption, US foreign policy, the human cost of the “drug war,” and the violence of extractive industries in Honduras, Mexico, and beyond.

My work has appeared in The Intercept, The Nation, The Baffler, Al-Jazeera, and my reporting has been frequently featured on NPR. I also share my reporting on a Substack Newsletter titled The Convergence ([link removed]) .

Doing this kind of hard-hitting reporting is far from easy, as independent journalists report on dark subjects for pittances without stable salaries, healthcare, or institutional support. But 2025 is a big year: I’m starting a long-term, under-the-wraps project larger than anything else I’ve done so far. So I’m fundraising to be able to carry that out.

Here’s a snapshot of my best work so far.
* In 2022, I revealed the financial flows ([link removed]) behind the assassination of world-renowned Honduran human rights defender Berta Cáceres, linking the negligence of a European transnational bank to the business executives implicated in her murder.
* In 2023, I broke the story of how the de facto head of the Honduran military, a US ally in the “drug war,” was linked to dozens of assassinations ([link removed]) at the hands of a mercenary firm he quietly ran.
* In 2024, I covered ([link removed]) the drugs and weapons trial ([link removed]) of ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in New York City—a close US ally and state drug trafficker.
* Related to Mexico, I’ve investigated the military violence ([link removed]) , enforced disappearance ([link removed]) , and mass displacement ([link removed]) resulting from the continued intensification of the US-backed “drug war” in Mexico.
* I’ve repeatedly ([link removed]) investigated killings ([link removed]) linked to transnational mining and palm corporations in the Aguán Valley of Honduras.
* In January I published a report ([link removed]) linking the violent displacement in Mexico to mining interests.
* Last month, I published a Spanish-language investigation revealing ([link removed]) the ties between political elites, palm corporations, and paramilitary groups murdering land defenders in Honduras.

My current projects involved a larger project tying together these subjects, as well as finishing a yearslong investigative report on smuggling networks, militarization, and criminalization of migration in the Sonoran desert.

I’m aiming to achieve $10,000 USD. This money will allow me to focus exclusively on investigative projects: the kind of work that requires intensive bouts of reporting for weeks or even months, reading and pre-reporting, writing and re-writing. The work I will produce will hopefully have a concentrated depth and investigative shelf-life that will be useful for activists, policy makers, and those interested in using journalistic work to support struggles for social justice south of the border.

If this is the kind of work you believe in, any amount would help.

Jared Olson
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Jared’s GoFundMe campaign: [link removed]

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