Rights Action
January 21, 2020
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Guatemalan military-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’ President Giammattei assumes power
As the U.S., Canada, Spain, World Bank and global corporations and investors vow to continue with full military, political and economic relations, the forced migrancy of tens of thousands of people into exile, every year, is to sure to continue.
“Guatemala is the top country of origin for migrants and asylum-seekers
fleeing violence and poverty
who are apprehended at the US southern border.”
Guatemala's new president is more of the same, experts say
January 20, 2020, by Sandra Cuffe
Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei and Defense Minister Juan Carlos Aleman take part in ceremony
with armed forces to recognize Giammattei as Commander-in-Chief, in Guatemala City, Jan. 15, 2020.
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Why do 10s of thousands of Hondurans & Guatemalans flee year after year?
The U.S. and Canadian governments, the World Bank and global businesses and investors (hydro-electric dams, mining, African palm, sugar cane and fruit production, garment “sweatshop” factors, tourism, etc.) maintain profitable relations with anti-democratic, corrupt, repressive governments in Honduras and Guatemala, participating in or benefitting from exploitation and repression, environmental harms and human rights violations, corruption and impunity.
The U.S., Canada and “international community” help keep in place the very regimes that force Hondurans and Guatemalans to flee their countries, every year, decade after decade. There is no political or legal oversight or accountability in the U.S. and Canada for our complicity in Guatemala and Honduras’ nightmare.
'Shithole countries'
U.S., Canada & international community helping produce forced migrancy from Honduras & Guatemala
By Grahame Russell, Rights Action, October 2019,
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/shithole-countries
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Rights Action (U.S. & Canada)
Since 1995, Rights Action funds human rights, environment and territory defense struggles and projects in Guatemala and Honduras; funds victims of repression and human rights violations, health harms and natural disasters; works to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, multi-national companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from repression and human rights violations, environmental harms and forced evictions, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
Get Informed / Get Involved
Act – Stir up the pot – Chip away
Keep sending copies of Rights Action information (and that of other solidarity groups/ NGOs) to family, friends and networks, politicians and media – always asking the question as to why our governments, companies and investment firms benefit from and turn a blind eye to poverty, repression and violence, environmental and health harms that caused the forced migrancy / refugee crisis in Guatemala and Honduras.
Other solidarity/ NGO groups in U.S. and Canada
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Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support our land, human rights and environmental defender partner groups 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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