The political and moral collapse that has been taking place in Honduras is evident in the midst of the persecution that the State has decreed against the defenders of Mother Earth, who are being annihilated or imprisoned by the current regime. According to Global Witness, from 2010 to 2017, around 120 murders of Mother Earth…
Category: HONDURAS
The Fire of the Latin American Right
Javier Tolcachier The flames in the Amazon synthesize the picture of the current political situation in Latin America. According to a recent bulletin from the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research, this year there have been 40,341 fires in the Amazon, the highest number since 2010. There is no doubt that the human and environmental catastrophe…
Honduras: Concern Over Incursion of Armed Groups in Garifuna Territory
Interview with Miriam Miranda of OFRANEH about the harassment experienced by Vallecito people in the hands of heavily armed men. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) denounced in its social media accounts that on Wednesday several armed men entered the Garifuna community of Vallecito, Department of Colon, harassing the inhabitants. The organization warns that…
Honduras: “The Coup d’état Was a Moment of Awakening for the Social Movements”
Zoe PC COPINH mobilizing against the coup in 2009. Photo: COPINH June 28, 2019 was the 10 year anniversary of the coup d’état in Honduras that took overthrew constitutionally elected president Manuel Zelaya. The coup was an important moment in Honduras and Latin America as it set off a process of intense neoliberalism and repression…
Honduras: Drug Trafficking in the Geopolitics of Capital
Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla It is no secret that the governments of the United States have used drug trafficking to their own country as a means of carrying out their imperial policies. From the Iran-Contras case to the uncontrolled growth of poppy production in Afghanistan, the US military and intelligence used this deadly business as…
Return to Rio Blanco
Karla Lara I bring the verdent painting my memories, we went two days to those mountains from Intibucá to La Tejera in Rio Blanco and then to the Culatón and the Vega del Achotal, one truly pauses because she cannot walk at the pace of the companions who are directing the walk, we take twice…
The Resistance of Honduras Against the Neocolonial Regime
Prensa CRBZ Honduras is experiencing a continuation of the coup d’état that overthrew President Zelaya in 2009. The authoritarian regime that oppresses the country is characterized by extractivism, electoral fraud, assassination, militarization, drug trafficking and militarism. At the same time, the people resist on the basis of their capacity for struggle and the ideas, the…
“The US Got Scared”: Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras
Alexander Rubinstein TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — MintPress News went to Honduras and spoke with a number of leaders of the Honduran resistance amid a 66-day uprising over a neoliberal austerity deal reached between the government as the country marked the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Last Thursday, the Honduran government passed a privatization law,…
Honduras: Who Would Destroy a Community’s Food Crops?
Zoe PC On July 16, members of the Lenca community woke up to find that their corn crops had been destroyed. Members of the Lenca community in Río Blanco in the northwestern region of Honduras woke up on July 16 to find that 15 sections of their corn crops had been destroyed during the night….
Death of Key Witness in Berta Cáceres Case Points to a Plot to Erase Evidence
Peoples Dispatch The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reported that on July 5 that Olvin Gustavo García Mejía was found dead in the San Bartolo community, in the north region of the Intibucá department. García Mejía was an unofficial employee of the Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA) company and allegedly carried…
The UN a League of Assassins: The Decline of Everything That Has Been
Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla For many weeks, Honduras has been in a convulsive situation. Several dead and wounded at the hands of the repressive forces of the state, political prisoners, militarization of the country, military entry to the campus of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, shooting students. In addition, days of brutal repression against…
Israël Against the Venezuelans
On 24 June 2019, Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó were to be eliminated for the benefit of Raúl Baduel. Yet another attempted coup d’etat took place the 24 June 2019 in Venezuela. All the protagonists were arrested, and the Minister for Information, Jorge Rodríguez, delivered a lengthy explanation on television about the ins and outs…
