Reframing the Debate: Root Causes of Forced Migrancy from Central America

Monday, October 17, 2022 - 1:00pm
CDT
Grahame Russell

Why are so many thousands of Central Americans forced to flee their homes, families and countries, year after year, decade after decade? It is astonishing and tiring to read, month after month, reports about the forced migrancy situation and not read a single explanation about how the U.S. and Canadian governments and other actors in the so-called international community maintain full and beneficial economic, political and military relations with the very regimes and economic elites in Guatemala and Honduras responsible for the conditions forcing people to flee.

Grahame Russell, author with Catherine Nolin of "Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala," will connect the dots between forced migrancy and military coups, for-export production, and the lack of human rights and labor and environmental standards. He will also give concrete examples from the community defense -vs- mining struggles that Canadian companies are involved in.

Russell is a non-practicing Canadian lawyer, an adjunct professor at University of Northern British Columbia and the director of Rights Action.

 

UPCOMING TOURS

March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

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