Military, Police, Paramilitary and Private Security Violence
A comprehensive article, by Annie Bird, about the intersection between “development” projects funded by the World Bank, and repression carried out by U.S.-supported regimes - and directly by U.S. military involvement - in Guatemala and Honduras.
Tahoe Resources / Goldcorp Inc. is partnered with the Guatemalan military, headed by President Otto Perez Molina, who – as a former General in the Guatemalan Army – was recently named in the Genocide Trial as an intellectual author of some of the atrocities in the Mayan Ixil region of Guatemala. The Guatemalan regime – with huge military presence – has declared a State of Siege in a region where Tahoe and Goldcorp are violently trying to open another gold mine.
“Genocida, Genoicida, Genocida, …” corearon unas 2000 personas en el Teatro Nacional en la Ciudad de Guatemala, la noche del 18 de abril, encima del discurso del Ministro de Cultura y Deporte para inaugurar el festival de cine antes que empezara la película. Las personas habían venido al cuarto año del festival de cine Memoria, Verdad, Justicia (http://www.memoriaverdadjusticiagt.com/) para ver el estreno mundial de la película documental, “Fiebre del Oro.”
Jose Antonio Lopez Lara of Rigores was identified as the body found in the exhumation of a clandestine burial site in the Paso Aguan plantation today. The exhumation was performed by two Guatemalan forensic anthropologists [with the FAFG – Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation], and attended by Honduran judicial officials and representatives of COFADEH and campesinos from the area, as well as by local police and military officials.
Se termino el primer dia de audiencias en este juicio unico en la historia de Canada
