The body of murdered fourth-year university student and active member of the environmental movement in the area of Ilobasco, Cabanas, Juan Francisco Duran Ayala, has finally been returned to his family in San Salvador. Juan is the fourth person active in the anti-mining movement in the department of Cabanas to be murdered in the past two years.
Source: Americas Program “My papa settled here in 1944,” Pablo Sarmiento says in a serene voice and gentle manner, as he looks at the ruins of his home that was torn down by a […]
The state uses propaganda to justify eliminating civil rights because of the threat of ‘terrorism’. Source: Al Jazeera A few months after the 2009 coup d’etat against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, I was approached on […]
Ecuador es el único país andino sin minas metálicas de gran escala (como las minas de oro o cobre). Este peculiar estado de gracia será puesto a prueba en las próximas semanas cuando el régimen […]
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Teacher and environmentalist from Siria Valley, Carlos Amador and Marlon Hernandez (at least), was detained this morning in their community of El Porvenir roughly 2 hours ago. Apparently the police have capture orders for all the community […]
SourceL: Fault Lines, Al Jazeera As the debate over whether to sign the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement unfolds in Congress, the reality of the impact of free trade policies becoming increasingly apparent on the […]
Impunity reigns in post-Cartagena Honduras. “We are living in a state,” Bertha Oliva of COFADEH reminded us, “in which the security forces can torture, and nothing will happen, where they can detain people without cause, and nothing will happen…they can persecute and assassinate their political opponents and nothing will happen. They can drive into political exile whatever quantity of people they desire, and nothing will happen.”
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