Honduras: funeral of man assassinated by police
COPINH, the indigenous organisation, issues statement protesting about police brutality (in Spanish).
Honduras: denunciation of “foreign military occupation”
Human rights body expresses outrage at killing of six civilians by US soldiers
Statement by Engelberto Domínguez, President of the Asociacion Campesina Nacional (ACAN)...
In Spanish and English.
HONDURAS: News from a land occupation in Bajo Aguán
Consuelo Castillo, one of the organisers of a land occupation in Lempira, Bajo Aguán, says agribusiness has illegally pushed families off the land to turn it over to cultivation of palm oil for biofuel.
HONDURAS: Blood on those carbon credits
Long-standing land disputes in the Honduran countryside boil over as palm oil plantations (grown for ‘green energy’) displace more peasant families.
LAB Interviews Quintin Andino Flores
Summary of Interview with Quintin Andino Flores, Project Director of COCOCH (Consejo Coordinado de Organizaciones Campesinas de Honduras)
La Vía Campesina
LAB Interviews Rafael Alegría, Central America Coordinator for La Via Campesina, about a serious land conflict in Honduras (Spanish and English).
Interview with Vitalino Alvarez (VA) from the Movimiento Unificado Campesino de...
In Spanish and English.
Interview with Adam Isacson – Obama and Honduras
In an interview with LAB, Adam Isacson, of WOLA, says that the Obama’s willingness to legitimise the 2009 coup is largely responsible for the huge increase in human rights violations in that country.
Honduras: Carbon Blood Money
The expanding palm oil industry is exacerbating hunger in an impoverished country, yet it is receiving carbon credits. Rosie Wong reports.