Resistance to Political and Business Assaults on Indigenous Land and Resources in Honduras

July 15, 2011 Margaret Thompson 0

“The historical, political and cultural significance of the Constitutional Assembly of Indigenous and Afro Honduran women recently held in Copan Ruinas includes its critical role in confronting the roots of the crisis that has besieged the country since the military coup in June, 2009,” said Miriam Miranda, a Garifuna leader and coordinator of  the Fraternal Organization of Black Hondurans (OFRANEH).

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How the US Props Up Criminals and Murderers All in the Name of Our Catastrophic Drug War

July 15, 2011 Ryan Devereaux, AlterNet 0

While the capability of Central American institutions to safeguard human rights is open to interpretation, activists in the region have raised serious concerns about the governments’ interest and will in doing so. They fear the hundreds of millions of dollars ear-marked for law enforcement and security will be used by the deeply corrupt–at times violent–governments of the Northern Triangle to support ongoing human rights abuses.

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