sugarcane for global consumers of “green energies”
(ethanol and bio-diesel fuels); by maquiladora
sweatshop exploiters of cheap labour (Gildan Inc.,
etc.); by hydro-electric dam companies (DESA
Agua Zarca, etc.) profiting from privatized rivers
and water sources; by exclusive tourism enclaves
(operated by the Canadian Randy “porn king”
Jorgensen, etc.) violently evicting indigenous
Garifuna peoples from their communal lands on
Honduras’ north shore; by mining companies
(Goldcorp Inc., etc.) ripping apart Mother Earth for
gold profiteers, poisoning the waters of the Siria
Valley and the blood of local residents.
Berta was killed …
by the U.S. created, funded and armed “war on
drugs” that took undemocratic and unjust, corrupt
and violent situations in Honduras (Guatemala,
Mexico, etc.) and made them worse, all while drug
consumption in the U.S. increases, while profits to
the weapons producers increase, while tax-payers’
money to the military establishments increase;
Most recently, Berta was killed ...
by the U.S. and Canadian backed military coup in
18