#mining exploitation

A pox on me for posting a Times article

Concessions for hydroelectric projects, mining exploitation, and other corporate projects on Indigenous and campesino land have ramped in the wake of the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup—which then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped secure—along with a severe downward spiral of human rights and increasing violence against activists. Last year, the human rights organization Global Witness declared Honduras the deadliest country in the world for land and environmental defenders, with the government complicit in the repression, criminalization, and murder of anti-neoliberal resistance activists.