Manuel Pérez-Rocha

The assassination of an environmental rights defender comes as multinational corporations use dubious legal mechanisms to hamstring Xiomara Castro’s administration.

A draft action plan would perpetuate an international investment regime that grants corporations excessive power to undermine public interest regulations.

U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.

While claiming to support social and environmental goals, leaders failed to challenge the excessive corporate powers that undermine those objectives.