📖 ¿Qué ocurre cuando la transición energética se convierte en colonialismo? Presentaremos un informe sobre cómo comunidades del sur de Honduras enfrentan proyectos solares impuestos, criminalización y pérdida de control sobre sus territorios. 📅 21 de julio | 9:30 (Honduras) 📺 Lnk.ink/MASSvida

An international group of 60 civil society organizations released a letter today calling on the Panamanian government to permanently close the Canadian-owned Cobre Panamá Mine as President Mulino Considers Next Steps Read the full letter: miningwatch.ca/news/2026/6/...

✊ Join us for an upcoming webinar to celebrate and stand in solidarity with over fifteen years of the Xinka People’s peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine! 🗓 Tuesday, June 16, 2026 🕒 4pm Pacific / 5pm Guatemala / 7pm Eastern / 8pm Atlantic Register now: bit.ly/Xinka2026

NEW: The Senate Committee on Human Rights will be wrapping up its study of C-9 in the first week of June. We are worried that the committee won't make changes to the bill to ensure our rights are protected. Let's keep up the pressure by calling Senators on the committee! iclmg.ca/call-to-stop-c-9

Transnational investors have exploited the global green energy transition discourse to profit from privatization, corruption, and dispossession in Honduras, one of the continent’s most impoverished countries. We need a real and truly just energy transformation. ips-dc.org/release-dark...

NEW REPORT: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition: Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras  - Institute for Policy Studies

NEW REPORT: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition: Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras

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The Xinka People denied consent for the restart of Vancouver-based Pan American Silver's Escobal mine in Guatemala. When will the company admit it and take steps to definitively close operations? earthworks.org/blog/one-yea...

One Year Later, We’re Still Waiting for Pan American Silver to Acknowledge the Xinka People’s Decision - Earthworks

Pan American Silver has still not publicly recognized or adequately disclosed the Xinka Peoples’ decision to deny consent for the Escobal mine.

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The Canadian government now has less than 45 days to respond to this important petition calling on it to: 1️⃣ Reaffirm the Xinka people’s right to say no to the Escobal mine in Guatemala 2️⃣ Take action to protect Xinka defenders and ensure their safety and security.

MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A year ago, the Xinka Indigenous people of Guatemala denied consent for the reopening of Canadian company Pan-American Silver's Escobal mine. Now, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has formally tabled a petition in parliament demanding their decision be respected! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrI...

"El mecanismo de Solución de Controversias entre Inversionistas y Estados (ISDS, por sus siglas en inglés) ha dejado de ser un tecnicismo legal para convertirse en un factor determinante de la política económica y ambiental en América Latina." elobservadorgt.org/2026/04/30/e...

Colombian, Latin American orgs and allies call on gov of Gustavo Petro, co-host of the first fossil fuel phase out conference, to withdraw from international agreements that let corporations sue governments to the detriment of needed protections for people and planet ips-dc.org/letter-to-th...

Letter to the Government of Colombia and President Gustavo Petro Urrego - Institute for Policy Studies

Letter to the Government of Colombia and President Gustavo Petro Urrego

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A timely read on how ISDS can delay or deter climate action. These secretive corporate tribunals pose real risks to public interest regulation. Colombia’s president recently announced plans to withdraw. @theecologist.org #StopISDS #ISDS theecologist.org/2026/apr/24/...

The legal block on climate action

Colombia has sent a strong signal about corporate influence over its climate policies as it gears up to host the first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Can the world follow?

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Frenemos Las Demandas de Transnacionales exhortamos al gobierno de Gustavo Petro a actuar su anuncio y retirar a Colombia del sistema de ISDS. La protección de la vida no debe ser sujeto a un sistema que privilegie a las empresas transnacionales. Anuncio: terra-justa.org/dc_2017/wp-c...

The Stop ISDS coalition urges the govt of Gustavo Petro to act on his promise and to withdraw Colombia from the ISDS regime. Protections for water, land, and life should not be subject to a system designed to favor transnational corporations. Statement: terra-justa.org/dc_2017/wp-c...

📢 Call to Action: Tell the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people's right to self-determination! A House of Commons e-petition in support of the Xinka people's demands for the closure of the Canadian-owned Escobal mine is now live! Sign the petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

“As women defenders of Kimsakocha who plant, sow and care for the land, and produce natural food without chemicals, we denounce before the Canadian embassy the criminalization we are facing, which seeks to obstruct the peaceful resistance we are carrying out against mining in the páramo.” Ruth Pugo

MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Press Release: 77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc. Read the full letter and press release here: miningwatch.ca/news/2026/3/...

Más de 50 organizaciones señalaron que la carta enviada por el nuevo gobierno hondureña es "una “señal de sumisión” al capital transnacional" orientada a "la protección de intereses corporativos, incluso cuando estos han generado conflictos ... en distintos territorios." criterio.hn/rechazan-ret...

retorno al CIADI pone en riesgo la soberanía

Alertan que la intención del gobierno de volver al CIADI podría facilitar la expansión de proyectos extractivos

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NUEVO: Tras la intervención EE UU en las elecciones hondureñas, IPS se une a organizaciones hondureñas e internacionales para denunciar el retorno a un sistema orientado a proteger a los inversores en detrimento del pueblo hondureño. #StopISDS

Organizaciones sociales nacionales e internacionales lanzan pronunciamiento contra el retorno de Honduras al CIADI - Institute for Policy Studies

Organizaciones sociales nacionales e internacionales lanzan pronunciamiento contra el retorno de Honduras al CIADI

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NEW: On the heels of U.S. intervention in Honduran elections, IPS joins Honduran partners and international allies to denounce a return to a system meant to maximize protections for investors to the detriment of the Honduran people. #StopISDS Statement:

Honduran and international allies issue statement denouncing Honduras' return to ICSID - Institute for Policy Studies

Honduran and international allies issue statement denouncing Honduras' return to ICSID

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Canadian mining companies are so accustomed to greedily claiming control over what's not theirs, Aris Mining thought it could claim a water champion prize it had never been awarded! Water defenders of Santander, Colombia who are resisting Aris' Soto Norte gold and copper project wisely fought back!

MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Canadian mining company Aris Mining, which intends to advance a gold mining project on the Páramo de Santurbán, is accused in Colombia of #greenwashing for attempting to clean up its image with a UN "water champion" award that was not awarded to them www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptx...

"The Canadian gov can support Ecuadorian communities by not signing the Free Trade Agreement, not accepting destructive metal mining, and conducting a thorough investigation into companies that violating the rights of nature and human rights.” To Dundee Precious Metals: Hands off Kimsacocha!

MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Indigenous and campesino communities in Cuenca, Ecuador met with Canadian ambassador Craig Kowalik yesterday. They delivered a clear message: NO Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement, and NO to Canadian mining in the Kimsakocha páramo.

Carrizalillo community members demand @EquinoxGoldCorp meet them half-way, pay them fairly for occupying their land or properly close the Los Filos mine. They urge @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social to ensure the 🇨🇦 company respect the law. bit.ly/4sOSeLb

Ejidatarios de Carrizalillo exigen intervención de Sheinbaum en caso de minera Equinox Gold

La representación agraria del ejido de Carrizalillo realizó su exigencia por la negativa de la empresa a negociar un precio justo por la ocupación de sus tierras o a cerrar y remediar los daños causad...

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Día 1 del presidente electo por Trump en Honduras, Asfury anuncia la intención de volver al CIADI, enviando un señal al sector privado Day 1 of Trump's chosen presidential candidate in Honduras, Asfury announces return to CIADI, a clear message to the private sector criterio.hn/volver-al-ci...

CIADI: señal política de Asfura al capital transnacional

Volver al Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Disputas entre Estados e Inversionistas (CIADI): la señal política de Asfura al capital transnacional

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Insightful analysis of Mark Carney's Davos speech with reflections on political theatre that the Liberal Party has mounted in the past, contradictions with Carney's domestic policies and his outrageous investment in military expansion, tightly intertwined with the U.S. pca.st/episode/f74c...

Mark Carney’s hollow defiance in Davos

Mark Carney’s speech calling out Trump and the collapse of the so-called “rules-based order” generated a torrent of praise around the world.Martin Lukacs talks with Katia Lo Innes to break down…

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"Carney’s critique ignores Canada’s own role in sustaining the structures he criticized. Chief among them are economic treaties that grant formidable rights to Canada’s influential mining sector and other multinational corporations."

Katie Surma@katiesurma.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Canada’s Mining Firms Are Big Beneficiaries of the Global Order Its Prime Minister Just Criticized As Mark Carney urges value-based leadership, critics point to trade rules championed by Canada that undermine those ideals. insideclimatenews.org/news/2201202...

In Venezuela, it's the oil. In Honduras, it's the privatized city states that Trump's tech bros seek to occupy in violation of people's self-determination, and likely much more

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 7mo ago

NEW: The IPS Global Economy Program joins 16 allies to repudiate unprecedented U.S. interference in Honduras, Venezuela, and across the hemisphere in the interests of U.S. imperialism and big business. We will work with the Honduran people to monitor and condemn this corporate assault. STATEMENT:

Primero Honduras, luego Venezuela Repudiamos categóricamente la injerencia de Estados Unidos en procesos electorales y afirmamos el derecho inalienable de los pueblos a su autonomía y autodeterminación, frente a agendas que buscan imponer intereses corporativos ips-dc.org/aviso-primer...

Primero Honduras, luego Venezuela: Organizaciones internacionales denuncian la injerencia de EE. UU. para complacer a sus amigos corporativos - Institute for Policy Studies

Primero Honduras, luego Venezuela: Organizaciones internacionales denuncian la injerencia de EE. UU. para complacer a sus amigos corporativos

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At a moment when Canada’s sovereignty has itself been repeatedly threatened by Trump, it is not in Canada’s interest to set a precedent that international law is optional, selective, or contingent on political convenience.

Canada’s muted response to US regime change in Venezuela undermines international law

Canada’s response to the US military operation in Venezuela harms not only international law and global stability, but Canada’s own interests. At a moment when Canada’s sovereignty has itself been rep...

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Great short video from The Breach. Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers are trying to buy off Indigenous resistance. Indigenous organizer Janelle Lapointe explains that it’s just modern-day beads and trinkets to buy off resistance to destructive resource projects. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...

Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers are trying to buy off Indigenous resistance  ⋆ The Breach

Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers are trying to buy off Indigenous resistance

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U.S. firm Kappes, Cassiday and Associates loses claim against Guatemala! From the Peaceful Resistance La Puya: "This project is so bad that the company couldn’t even defend it in an arbitration system designed to protect the investments of transnational corporations." ips-dc.org/water-defend...

Water Defenders Celebrate Ruling Against U.S. Gold Company's Claim - Institute for Policy Studies

Water Defenders Celebrate Ruling Against U.S. Gold Company's Claim

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Really shameful, even if unsurprising

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 8mo ago

The Canadian government celebrates the US committing the crime of aggression against Venezuela, in violation of international law and the UN Charter, even as it calls for respect for international law. I’m not surprised: Carney took a similar approach when the US illegally attacked Iran last year.

The Institute for Policy Studies - Global Economy Program joins with organizations from around the world to express deep concern and solidarity with Misael Socorrás Ipuana and all the Indigenous and environment defenders in La Guajira, Colombia fighting to protect the Bruno River.

London Mining Network@ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia. Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte... @terrajusta.bsky.social