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We approach three young Honduran soldiers who stand outside a military post in Guadalupe Carney, a rural community in Honduras’ Aguan Valley. Two are 19 and one is 20. Dressed in military garb the oldest wears an automatic weapon on his chest. Sporting vests and name-tags and armed only with cameras and notebooks, we cautiously […]
May 8, 2012
By Lauren Elliott and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report “Land, well, it’s our first mother. For us farmers, we don’t have life without land. That’s the reason we’re in this struggle.” – Consuelo Castillo In Honduras, as in most places, the government and the wealthy treat land as a commodity. In pursuit of the profits it […]
April 16, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA – An ongoing struggle over land in the Caribbean coastal province of Colon claimed five more lives this week, Honduran police said Friday. Three employees of agribusiness firm Quimicas Dinant, owned by mogul Miguel Facusse, were fatally shot on Thursday while driving between the towns of Olanchito and Saba, the National Police said in […]
April 6, 2012
The US government and multilateral institutions must demand an end to the human rights abuses surrounding land disputes. Springfield, MA – Honduras now claims the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of the world as drug trafficking and gangs play an undeniable role in the violence plaguing the small central American country. However, there […]
March 29, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A union leader in Honduras says four farmworkers have been shot to death by assailants in a region torn by a dispute over land. Farmworkers union vice president Juan Chinchilla says 11 others were wounded when the group was ambushed late Thursday in the town of Trujillo. Chinchilla says the workers were […]
February 3, 2012
COPINH alerts the national and international community of new arbitrary actions of the national police in Honduras that put the physical integrity of 13 leaders of the Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan (Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán), MUCA, who were detained tonight at 9:50pm. This acion was taken by police who maintain a police checkpoint in […]
February 3, 2012
“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 Front for Popular Resistance,” Juan lives in an encampment […]
December 24, 2011
The Permanent International Observatory for Human Rights in the Aguán once again denounces the climate of repression prevailing in the Aguán Valley on the north coast of Honduras. In the region there has been no truce in the implementation of repression and uninterrupted military operations against the community of Rigores and the campesino settlements of […]
August 22, 2011
The Vice President of MUCA, Pedro Salgado and his wife, Reina Mejía, were killed on Sunday 22 in their home in the town of La Concepción around 7:40 pm. A few days ago Secundino Ruiz, president of MARCA was killed during a visit to the city of Tocoa with the group’s treasurer. “Today, August 20th […]
August 22, 2011
Secundino Ruiz, president of the cooperative San Isidro, was killed in San Isidro, Tocoa, Columbus, around 11:30 am on Saturday, August 20. The now deceased campesino leader was driving a vehicle, together with the treasurer of the cooperative, Eliseo Pavón, when he was shot several times by individuals who were driving a motorcycle. Eliseo Pavón was only slightly wounded and is in his home, according to sources. The cooperative San Isidro started a legal fight against Miguel Facussé […]
August 21, 2011
By the Witness for Peace International Team, Nicaragua Early this week, several major news outlets ran stories concerning continued violence in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras. The current Lobo administration in Honduras increased military presence in the area over the last few days following several violent attacks that left close to a dozen people […]
August 17, 2011
The Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguan – Left Bank (MUCA-MI), in our struggle for a real and true application of integral agrarian reform, DECLARES to Honduran Society, the International Community, and National and International Human Rights Organizations that: 1. Sunday, August 14, 2011 between five o’clock and eight o’clock in the morning (5:00 AM […]
August 16, 2011
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Authorities in Honduras say 11 people have been killed in a clash over land in the Central American country’s north. Police spokesman Julio Benitez says two peasants and four guards at the Paso del Aguan ranch died Sunday when 300 peasants armed with machetes and automatic rifles tried to take over the […]
August 14, 2011
Early this morning, Sunday August 14, campesinos from the Movimiento Campesino Colonia Nueva Vida de Rigores, occupied the Empresa Palmera Panama, ten minutes from the community Rigores in Trujillo, Colon. Shortly afterwards palm company security forces and the military launched an attack, opening fire on the campesinos, killing 17 year old Javier Melgar. Authorities in […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
June 15, 2012
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