Guatemala
On Al Jazeera, "Inside Story America" talks with Annie Bird (Rights Action) and Alberto Arce about whether the US state department is misleading Congress about possible US funding for Honduran death squads?
"Particularly worrying, however, is the very dramatic increase in [World Bank and IDB] lending that coincided with the highest waves of terror, which reached genocidal proportions in the late 1970s and early 1980s."
- Article: NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW REAGAN GAVE GO-AHEAD TO MAYAN GENOCIDE
- Article: GENOCIDE ON TRIAL IN GUATEMALA, SETTING MODEL FOR REGION
- GHRC: international accompaniers wanted
- How to support?
Tras dos días de vistas, la jueza Carole Brown, del Tribunal Superior de Ontario, dijo hoy que considerará si admite que prosiga en los tribunales canadienses la demanda de varios ciudadanos guatemaltecos contra la minera Hudbay.
Rights Action was honored to bring Angelica Choc - one of the plaintiffs - to Toronto, to attend 2 days of court hearings concerning 3 civil suits filed against Hudbay Minerals concerning the killing of Adolfo Ich, the shooting-paralyzing of German Chub and the gang rapes of 11 women in the community of Lote 8 (all in the municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala).
Se termino el primer dia de audiencias en este juicio unico en la historia de Canada
Juicio civil contra HudBay Minerals será visto en los tribunales Canadienses, los días 4 y 5 de marzo. Se produjo un acontecimiento que sentará precedentes en la demanda que víctimas de origen Maya Qeqchis presentaron contra la empresa HudBay Minerals, por asesinato, lesiones graves y violaciones sexuales en el yacimiento de níquel en Guatemala.
Civil Trials Against Hudbay Minerals To Proceed In Canadian Courts, March 4-5. There has been a precedent-setting development in Mayans' lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals over shootings and rapes at the nickel mine site in Guatemala.
"The cozy relationship between Ríos Montt and the Reagan administration needs to be dug up from the graveyards of history, much like the bodies that are still being dug up from mass graves in Guatemala." (Cyril Mychalejko)
ON-LINE PETITION: Tell the Government of Guatemala NOT to grant an extraction license to the Canadian/ American mining company Tahoe Resources (40% owned by Goldcorp Inc.)
