Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

One week after the Colombian elections, Community Peacemaker Teams met with local leadership in El Guayabo to collectively reflect on emerging risks, evaluate past strategies, and adapt their approach to defending their territory. Despite the exhausting challenges of ongoing resistance, the community drew strength from their shared experience, international support, and mutual care, reaffirming that their collective organization is what keeps hope and resilience alive.

With burning incense, flowers and tears, Indigenous Maya Guatemalans on Monday buried the remains of 68 victims of the country's civil war years after they were unearthed in mass graves.

This article by Honduras Now, attempting to make sense of the current political shifts in Honduras,  reviews the political developments from the military coup in 2009 to the imminent developments resembling post coup narco dictatorship, restoring right wing policies and thus becoming yet another functionair fostering trump administrations agenda in central america.   

In the weeks leading up to the 17th anniversary of the 2009 coup in Honduras, dozens of social movements and grassroots organizations are coordinating press conferences, collecting signatures, blocking roads, and demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court. All of these actions aim to denounce a series of laws that promote and prioritize large-scale private investment in the agribusiness, tourism, and energy sectors, which they claim are returning Honduras to the narco-dictatorship that followed the coup (2009-2022). The resistance of these movements is directly linked to the intensification of US intervention in Honduras.

The company paid bribes to judges, police, and even former president Alejandro Giammattei to continue operating. Q’eqchi’ Indigenous people warn of protests over the reactivation of the El Estor mine

High commissioner for human rights calls for ‘those responsible for violations of the law’ to be held to account.

As deaths in US immigration detention hit a staggering 20-year high, the UN's top human rights official is sounding the alarm over a secretive spike in custody fatalities and alleged torture. While the Trump administration fiercely denies the crisis, internal watchdogs and human rights groups are launching urgent investigations into what critics call a "breathtaking breach of care."

Starting in May, immigration attorneys began reporting that they were arriving at immigration court to find judges’ dockets packed with over 100 hearings scheduled in a single morning—a phenomenon that quickly became known as “mega master calendar hearings,” ...

“Hundreds of thousands of people who hold legal status... now face losing their ability to work and being torn from their families and homes.”