Honduras

Honduras Delegation – Coup vs. Democracy

Rights Action / Alliance for Global Justice Honduras Delegation May 19-28, 2012 Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations. Canadian and US transnational corporations are pushing mining…

War Against Peasant Farmers Heats Up in Honduras

This piece was originally published in Upside Down World. “There is a war here in the Aguán,” says Juan, surveying the distant fields of African palm from the vantage point of his recently planted field of beans and corn. A young Honduran farmer, wearing a beaten cowboy hat and a bandana bearing the name “National…

Honduras Congressional Letter – Has Your Rep Signed?

The following was originally sent by the Honduras Solidarity Network (of which AFGJ is a part.) On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) circulated a House sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter addressing the ongoing human rights crisis in the Aguán region of Honduras. *It will be open for signature until March 1. *…

Return to Rigores, Honduras

By Chuck Kaufman On Jan. 9, 2012 an Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) delegation of US and Canadians visited the farming community of Rigores, Honduras in the fertile Aguan Valley near the country’s Caribbean Coast. It was a far different visit than was experienced by a previous AfGJ delegation just six months earlier. On that…

Human Rights Accompaniment Program

Description Due to the increased militarization and systematic human rights violations of campesino communities in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras, we are making a call for committed volunteers interested in long term accompaniment. The international accompaniment program is a product of the Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos en el Bajo Aguan. The Observatorio primarily…

Honduras & the US Military

By John Lindsay-Poland The following is an introduction to a report that can be downloaded in its entirety here. Honduras 
has
 increasingly
 become 
a 
hub
 for 
U.S. 
military 
operations
 in
 Central
 America,
 centered 
on 
the
 Soto
 Cano
 air
base 
(also
 known
 locally
 as 
Palmerola),
 which
 has 
received
 an
 infusion 
of 
up 
to 
$45 
million 
in 
construction…

Honduras does not afford rights to Journalists

The Committee for the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), expresses its outrage and concern for the violation of rights carried out against journalists, social communicators, and especially for the safety of Mario Castro Rodríguez, Director of the Program “Whip Against Corruption” (Látigo Contra la Corrupción), transmitted two hours each day by…