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Garifuna Communities of Trujillo Take Legal Action Against Canadian Porn King

December 15, 2011

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On Monday, December 13th, leaders from the communities of Cristales and Río Negro, part of the Municipality of Trujillo, accompanied by OFRANEH, presented a lawsuit to render null and void various fraudulent contracts for sales of community lands held by Canadian Randy Roy Jorgensen. The majority of these transactions were carried out under pressure, offering […]

Eviction in the Garifuna community of Punta Gorda, Roatan

April 7, 2011

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Troops of the Ministry of Security, at the request of the Military Prevention Institute (GPI), are currently carrying out an eviction in the island community of Punta Gorda, Roatan. More than 40 families are being forcibly evicted, living in the area known as Punta Gorda, located in the community of the same name. It is […]

Letter from Miriam Miranda, recently FREED Garífuna resistance leader

March 29, 2011

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Honduras: The Coup d’etat, its inheritors and the criminalization of social protest by Miriam Miranda Yesterday I was captured in a selective way by agents of the Ministry of security in the middle of a protest around the Garífuna community Triunfo de la Cruz. In the process of being arrested they shot several tear-gas bombs […]

“Nobody can silence us” – Garífuna radio station under attack again

January 23, 2011

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La Voz de los de Abajo has just begun an 8-day human rights delegation to Honduras, our fourth since the coup d’etat of June 28th, 2009. Our delegation started out with a visit to Triunfo de la Cruz, a Garífuna community that is home to the first Garífuna people’s radio station, which has been under […]