Friday, October 12, 2012

UK owner of Guatemalan energy firm urged to act after protest deaths

Click here to access article by Dawn Paley in Totonicapán and Jonathan Watts from The Guardian. 

Because I am on several human rights email lists, I receive hundreds of such reports about corporate crimes against indigenous people each year. They all involve corporations based in USA, Canada, and Europe. Most reports I receive relate to incidents in Central America, but this goes on in Africa as well--probably on a much larger scale. Few such incidents ever make it into mainstream news media. Thus, citizens of the US led Empire remain mostly, and blissfully, unaware of these crimes.