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Gold, Skin and Bones: Goldcorp’s adventure in Honduras - by Dawn Paley, March 1, 2007

“We’ve been here for seven years,” explains Pedro Rodolfo Arteaga, gesturing at a scattering of plain houses lining a dirt road “and we never thought we would find ourselves in this situation.” A resident of Palo Ralo, in the Siria Valley in central Honduras, Arteaga explains that “the old village was inside the perimeter of where the company wanted to put their machinery, and we were obstacles for them.”

Palo Ralo is a village constructed in 1999 …

The following is some news, as sent out by www.rightsaction.org

AMBUSH OF GARIFUNA YOUTH FROM COMMUNITY OF SAN JUAN TELA

This past April 14 in the entry to the community of San Juan Tela, Durugubuti, young women, Keydi Jorleny Marin, Yerli Isolina Ellis, Yanaira Briyed Lambert, Eusebia Guillen, Joselyn Lizet Rivas were ambushed. The last mentioned is the daughter Jessica Garcia, President of the Patronata (development committee) of the community of Durugubuti, who has been constantly threatened for her position in the defense of her community’s territory.

According to the Preventative …

Protests Mount Against Mining Giant
Stephen Leahy, www.ipsnews.net
February 24, 2007

TORONTO, Feb 24 (Tierramérica) - Dangerous levels of lead and arsenic have been found in the blood of Honduran villagers living downstream from a controversial gold and silver mine owned by Canada’s Goldcorp Inc., the world’s third largest gold mining firm.

According to the ecologists who organised the study, lead and arsenic levels in the blood were higher than the maximum recommended by international standards (70 ug/dl) in a sample of 10 people who live near the San Martín mine, in San Ignacio, a municipality located in the central Siria Valley.

The study, …

Guatemala and Honduras - a Global Investors “Oasis”
from Rights Action, www.rightsaction.org

It has been said that “the problems of the South are the demands of the North,” and Central America is rife with poverty and exploitation and environmental destruction due in (large) part to “development” economic policies imposed by and beneficial to the global north.

On-going militarism in Central America - including the physical presence of American soldiers - facilitates mainly North American efforts to secure access to resources for North American investors and business interests, in
particular minerals, petroleum, land, water, coffee and cheap labour.

“Free” trade agreements, including DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic …

World Indigenous Empowerment Summit
La Paz, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The multinational state, the Constituent Assembly, resistance and democracy are on Monday s agenda for delegates at the Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala.

Over a thousand representatives from Bolivia, the US, Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Uruguay are presenting their experiences with unity in native peoples.

They will discuss international rights, identity and coexistence as well as culture, education, language and historical social debts in work commissions.

The event ending October 12 will spurn Washington´s new colonization strategy through the Free …