Rights Action
June 25, 2021
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NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other covetous tourism invaders, use the corrupt Honduran legal system to bring trumped up charges against Silvia Bonilla Flores, a 73-year old Garifuna woman, and 32 other community members defending their lands coveted by the imperialist tourism industry. (Photo: OFRANEH, June 16, 2021, Silvia Bonilla Flores)
Tourism imperialism & ethnocide
For decades, and particularly since the 2009 US and Canadian-backed military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government, tourism invaders (“investors”) have collaborated with corrupt and repressive Honduran regimes - headed by military-backed Presidents Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo and Juan Orlando Hernandez - to push aggressively ahead with illegal, oftentimes violent land grabs.
Both regime Presidents have family members in jail in the US on drug-trafficking convictions. Both have been directly implicated in drug-trafficking themselves, by US prosecutors.
This is US and Canadian foreign economic policy at work. The US and Canada maintain full relations with the Honduran regime, considering it a staunch “democratic allie”.
Background
Garifuna people between jail and grave – Two more killed
Is Honduran repression against Garifuna land defenders benefitting tourism companies, like “NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences” of Canada?
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/garifuna-people-between-jail-and-grave
Keep sending copies of this information (and that of other solidarity groups/ NGOs) to family, friends, your networks, politicians and media, asking ‘Why do our governments, companies and investment firms benefit from and turn a blind eye to poverty, repression and violence, environmental and health harms that are causing the forced migrancy / refugee crisis in Guatemala and Honduras?’
NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences
- 14-7500 ON-27, Woodbridge, ON Canada, L4H 0J2, Canada
- Tres Conchas, 3 km Carretera de Santa Fe, Trujillo, Colon, Honduras
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Funds needed to provide on-going support to OFRANEH and other community defense struggles in Honduras and Guatemala. Make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
- Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
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