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Rights Action
2017 year-end
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At least 34 people are missing, this year-end, in Honduras
2017 ends as it began, with courageous, honest people in Honduras and Guatemala (let alone in numerous exploited countries of the global south) working and struggling to defend community well-being, local water-sheds and the environment, and individual and collective rights; struggling to oust undemocratic, repressive and corrupt regimes and achieve a return to real democracy and rule of law.
This is no small challenge. Particularly when the regimes in power in Honduras and Guatemala are enabled and empowered by the “international community” in general, and particularly by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the U.S. military, and a host of global companies and investors.
Simply put: These regimes would not be in power, but for their economic and military relations with their international partners. The global nation-state system is an unjust global class system of sorts. As our partner groups in Guatemala and Honduras work to end exploitation, racism, discrimination and repression, glued together by corruption and impunity inside their borders, we work with them to end how the “international community” (governments, companies, investors and the U.S. military) enable and empower the regimes and elites in power.
Faltan 34 personas esta noche, en la mesa de su familia
(Source: This incomplete list was compiled by the Honduran University Student Movement)
Over 34 Hondurans have been killed protesting (since November 26) the electoral fraud perpetrated by the repressive U.S. and Canadian-backed regime in power.
•José Abolió Soto, 46 años
•Roger Alberto Vázquez, 35 años
•Victor Evelio Martínez, 23 años
•José David Ramos Lambert, 22 años
•José Fernando Melgar, 16 años
•Kimberly Dayana Fonseca, 19 años
•Eric Javier Montaña Cruz, 27 años
•Raúl Antonio Triminio Sisnado, 35 años
•Eduardo Rubén Rivera, 35 años
•Milton Orlando Rivera Cortes, 30 años
•Israel Hernández Varela, 42 años
•Mauricio Jonathan Echeverria, 23 años
•Michael Jair Ponce Suceda, 15 años
•Virgilio Yareth Avila González, 15 años
•Arnold Fernando Serrano Moncada, 32 años
•Raúl Humberto Brizuela Reyes, 21 años
•Jesús de Maria Sánchez Euceda, 43 años
•Zet Jonathan Araujo Andino, 30 años
•Lesman Anibal Cárcamo Bonilla, 18 años
•David Octavio Quiroz, 32 años
•Brayan Noe Mejía González, 26 años
•Delmer Josue Medina, 28 años
•Nicol Ayala, 13 años
•Marlon Mendoza Herrera, 26 años
•Cristian Funez de 24 años
•Jarol Uriel García, 36 años
•Juan Carlos Flores, 26 años
Rights Action matching donors
Two anonymous donors will match donations, up to a total of $35,000, made by December 31, 2017.
Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.): To support the community development, human rights and environmental defense, and emergency relief work of grassroots groups in Honduras and Guatemala working and struggling for justice and fundamental political and economic transformation from the local to global levels, make check payable 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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