Canadian support of violent Honduran government; Report from the Migrant Caravan

Program Title: The Migrant Caravan: Canadian & US business Interests Place Protfits over People in Central America
Description: This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour takes a close look at the Migrant Caravan making its way from Honduras to the US-Mexico border. In the first half hour, guest Tyler Shipley, author of Ottawa and Empire: Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras, outlines the ways in which Canada and Canadian business interests has supported and enabled the very violent living conditions in Honduras that Migrants are fleeing from. In our second half hour, independent writer and photojournalist José Luis Granados Ceja reports on his observations of the migrant from his time with them in late October. He describes the narco-trafficking and other dangers the migrants have confronted during their 4000 kilometre journey, his thoughts about the November 25th attack by US border agents, and what he anticipates as a leftist politician, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assumes the presidency of Mexico on December 1st.

Host(s): Michael Welch
Featured Speakers/Guests: Tyler Shipley, José Luis Granados Ceja

Credits: interviews by Michael Welch

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