Really shameful, even if unsurprising

The Institute for Policy Studies - Global Economy Program joins with organizations from around the world to express deep concern and solidarity with Misael Socorrás Ipuana and all the Indigenous and environment defenders in La Guajira, Colombia fighting to protect the Bruno River.

“It would seem like the U.S. is favoring, for ideological reasons, a narco-state to prevent the left from returning to power."

IPS-Global Economy pgm joins this call for a full audit of the Cobre Panama mine toward its definitive closure. Without a doubt, the billion-dollar ISDS suits brought against Panama by First Quantum and associates under the Panama-Canada FTA and other agreements are weakening the process #StopISDS

“Affected communities who have clean hands and real injuries still haven’t gotten justice or any meaningful remedies, while Chevron is poised to profit again.” - lawyer and author Judith Kimerling, who helped document Texaco-Chevron's operations in Ecuador

Canada is shamefully silent over communications from UN bodies concerned for Colombian water defenders who have been bravely standing up to Vancouver-based Aris Mining. For its part, the company minimizes the danger and denies responsibility, despite its subcontractor having circulated threats

The Libs are bringing back C-2 for 2nd reading next week! TAKE ACTION AGAIN to stop C-2 & C-12: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2 They THREATEN privacy, civil liberties and migrant & refugee rights - click the action for all details! Remind MPs that we don’t want those bills. Thanks! #cdnpoli

By portraying military intervention as a response to drug trafficking, the “narco-terrorism” myth allows politicians to ignore all of the ways in which military intervention is a cause of drug trafficking.

Horrifying. It’s Election Day in Honduras and Trump has escalated US intervention. Worse, while supposedly “fighting drug trafficking and “narco-terrorism" … it now plans to pardon a high-level convicted drug-trafficker:” ex president Juan Orlando Hernandez www.hondurasnow.org/communique-c...

The mineral-intensive energy transition in Latin America is advancing in ways that undermine human rights and nature, pushing into fragile ecosystems, overriding community consent, and placing environmental defenders at growing risk. NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:

U.S. investors suing Honduras abandoned social housing project after back to back tropical storms. “We were the ones who were harmed and swindled… They never gave us even minimal consideration or ever showed up in the community.” fpif.org/u-s-backed-h...

Can't agree more, very stupid decision from the Carney government!

In a context where Ecuador and Canada are seeking to ratify a FTA that primarily aims to increase Canadian mining investment in the country, this new blow to DPM also sends a strong message to Canada that Canadian mining investment is not welcome in Ecuador. #HandsoffKimsakocha #KimsakochaNoSeToca

Respect people's rights over corporate rights! As Ecuadorians head into a November 16 referendum on constitutional protections, Canada must stop promoting investor protections that threaten human rights. shorturl.at/qdBM1 @miningwatch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca @lughiotto.bsky.social

Vancouver-based Pan American Silver has been outright ignoring the Xinka People's decision to call for the definitive closure of its Escobal silver mine in Guatemala as the culimination of a seven-year long consultation process. It's time for the company to acknowledge and respect their clear "no"

As #COP30 focuses on the Amazon, new research shows governments can still face #ISDS claims for taking climate action. 218 oil & gas projects are covered by treaties enabling these challenges. We cannot protect the Amazon while these rules remain. www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...

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NEW: Our partners in Honduras have been criminalized for 8 years for protesting a solar energy park that has affected their rights to water, land, and basic subsistence. We demand an end to the punitive measures being put on this community. STATEMENT:

NEW: The Guatemalan Xinka People are defending their territory, water and health by demanding the closure of the toxic Escobal mine — but its Canada-based owner is ignoring them. Show solidarity and send a message to Pan American Silver CEO Michael Steinmann now: act.earthworks.org/page/87881/p...

We are deeply concerned by the smear campaign targeting CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.

Good analysis of decision in Canadian mining firm’s arbitration claim against Peru. Further shows how secretive corporate courts - designed by and for the promoters of neocolonial extraction - reinforce more of the same, an affront to Indigenous self-determination. www.ejiltalk.org/lupaka-gold-...

This "no" is not negotiable. A Guatemalan court ordered the government to consult with the Xinka People over the future of Pan American Silver's Escobal mine. This May, the Xinka People said no to the reopening of the mine and called for it to be closed permanently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ie...

Nuevo reporte sobre las demandas arbitrales #ISDS contra #Argentina 🇦🇷 pagó a los inversores extranjeros USD 9.330 millones - esto equivale al doble del presupuesto para el Ministerio de Educación de todo 2024. Lee el informe completo: isds-americalatina.org/argentina/

The Canadian government is massively indebted to Grassy Narrows First Nation, given ongoing mercury poisoning from the Dryden Paper Mill and threats from mining. Please sign and share: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...

"Vinimos a decirle a Canadá que el pueblo xinka ha decidido que no quiere que continúe la empresa minera en nuestro territorio y pedimos el cierre definitivo", dijo Marisol Guerra, una de las dos delegadas xinkas de paso por Canadá.

Please sign and share widely!

Huge march in Cuenca, Ecuador today to protect water and say no yet again to Dundee Precious Metals' Loma Larga mine project that has threatened water, high moorlands known as Kimsacocha and the health of downstream rural and urban people for over twenty years. Hands off Kimsacocha! Cuenca says no!

Artists used the Emmys stage to say what media won’t: There is a genocide happening, and silence is complicity.

Justice now for the brutal murder of Honduran environment defender Juan López, brutally murdered one year ago today as he was leaving church for standing up against corruption and mining in Tocoa. The intellectual authors of this vile crime must be held to account! criterio.hn/asesinato-de...

Ottawa, September 23 at 5:30 PM!

From NACLA’s Green Capitalism in the Americas, we look at foreign investment in solar energy in Honduras that led to persecution of communities starting under the narcodictatorship and now $1,6 billion in claims over modest reforms. @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HFMVI...

This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.