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Press Release More than 70 religious leaders, organizations, and academics yesterday urged companies not to bid on a $25 million contract to upgrade a U.S. military base in Honduras, saying the base “violates Honduran sovereignty and the principles of democracy.” The Army Corps of Engineers contract is for barracks for enlisted soldiers at Soto Cano […]
May 27, 2011
By Dana Frank, May 27, 2011 The return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras doesn’t mean democracy, civil liberties and the basic rule of law are returning to that country any time soon. Far from it. The very same oligarchs who launched the coup remain in power, and in the past two months the […]
May 27, 2011
by Giorgio Trucchi Rel-UITA (Unión Internacional de Trabajadores de la Alimentación, Agrícolas, Hoteles, Restaurantes, Tabaco y Afines) Interview with Esly Banegas, FNRP Political Committee On 22 May, Porfirio Lobo and former President Manuel Zelaya signed the “Agreement of Cartagena”, in the context of the mediation process led by the governments of Venezuela and Colombia. To […]
May 26, 2011
The Committee of the Families of the Detained-Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH) celebrates the signing of the Cartegena de Indias Accord which permits the return of ex Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to our country. At the same time, COFADEH condemns the language of the oligarchy aligned with the coup in the text of the Accord which refers […]
May 20, 2011
Luis Mendoza, who owned the Macrosistema cable company and Channel 24 in the Danlí municipality, department of El Paraíso, was killed by heavily armed men, about 10 minutes past seven on May 19, Thursday morning. The unknown men were driving a green truck half a block from Channel 24, in the vicinity of Manuel Gamero […]
May 19, 2011
No end to the wave of assassinations, torture and disappeared in Honduras By Giorgio Trucchi – REL-UITA While North American diplomacy increases pressure to normalize the situation of Honduras at the international level and reinsert it into the OAS, the organized campesinos in Lower Aguan continue to fall to the murderous bullets of the paramilitary […]
May 18, 2011
Sixto Ramos (45), a member of the campesino cooperative Nueva Suyapa, of the Peasant Movement of Aguán, MCA, was murdered at about eight o’clock on Wednesday, 18 May, shot several times from a passing car, when he was going to his organization. This is one of several murders in recent days. On May 9, Roney Diaz […]
May 16, 2011
Freedom of expression came under attack. Little progress was made in repairing the damage to human rights protection and the rule of law that followed the 2009 coup. Impunity for human rights violations by military and police officers persisted. Human rights defenders were subject to intimidation. Background Porfirio Lobo of the National Party became President […]
May 16, 2011
A brief account of the past and present human rights situation in Honduras by Bertha Oliva, director of COFADEH, and recipient of Premio Tulipán 2010.
May 15, 2011
The Moskitia (mos-KEE-tya): it’s the largest, most magnificent expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. For 3,000 years, Indigenous people have plied their dugout canoes up and down the Patuca River, the central artery of Honduras’ vast Moskitia lowland […]
May 12, 2011
Years from now when participants on the SOA Watch delegation to Honduras look back on this visit, I´ll wager to bet that the ten of us will most remember one vivid moment: standing on a dusty road bordered by fields of African palm on a steaming hot tropical afternoon. Given all we experienced those nine […]
May 11, 2011
In Morazan, Yoro, Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 35 years old, was shot dead as he was leaving Channel 9 news, Omega Vision, where he was General Coordinator. At the end of the news broadcast at 7:00 pm, Tuesday, Medina Polanco was followed by two men on a motorcycle and was shot three times in the […]
May 11, 2011
Tegucigalpa – Almost five million Hondurans live below the poverty line, according to a report from the Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America, published Tuesday. Honduras, with a population of 8.2 million, is one of the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin America, the report states. Most of those people live in completely […]
May 10, 2011
Various teachers suspended from their jobs for one, two and six months began a voluntary fast for 24 hours on May 4 and have now declared themselves to be on an indefinite hunger strike and in a state of calamity. The educators who began the fast on Wednesday (May 4) outside of the National Congress […]
May 27, 2011
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