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The state uses propaganda to justify eliminating civil rights because of the threat of ‘terrorism’. by Belén Fernández A few months after the 2009 coup d’etat against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, I was approached on the street in Tegucigalpa by a man who threatened to kill me unless I produced an economic incentive sufficient to […]
June 28, 2011
by: Andrew Kennis, Truthout | News Analysis Editor’s Note: June 28, 2011 is the two-year anniversary of the coup in Honduras. It was a typically balmy and rainy Sunday on June 5 in the Finca San Isidro farming lands of the fertile Bajo Aguán area in Honduras. José Recinos, Genaro Cuestas and Joel Santamaría were […]
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 10, 2011
by Gerardo Torres Zelaya If you’ve ever had the opportunity of seeing the famous movie The Godfather II (1974) can probably remember the scene where he moved in the preambles of the Cuban Revolution Batista taking over from foreign investors a stunning phone gold amid promises that everything will be fine, that the rebels are […]
May 9, 2011
by Karen Spring and Grahame Russell Going back to at least 2007, Goldcorp Inc. and the government of Honduras have known about and covered up information about blood poisoning and health problems caused by Goldcorp’s open-pit, cyanide leaching “San Martin” mine in the Siria Valley , department of Francisco Morazan, central Honduras . This mine […]
May 6, 2011
Thursday afternoon, after the conclusion of a peaceful demonstration against “Honduras: Open For Business” by various organizations of the National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP, police fired tear gas and captured about eight people, including three from the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations, COPINH, when they reached the central park of San Pedro Sula. […]
May 6, 2011
We fully back the sale of Honduras to the highest bidder. Yours Truly, USAID. By Colectivo Morazán On May 5th and 6th,more than 350 representatives of foreign corporations will meet in San Pedro Sula, Honduras at the conference called “Honduras is Open for Business,” an event that is part of the National Program for Promoting […]
May 5, 2011
by Dana Frank In Honduras, it’s come to this: when 90 percent of the city’s 68,000 public schoolteachers went out on strike in March to protest the privatization of the entire public school system, the government teargassed their demonstrations for almost three solid weeks, then suspended 305 teachers for two to six months as punishment […]
April 15, 2011
French energy giant EDF announced this week that it has canceled its agreement to purchase carbon credits from Miguel Facussé’s Dinant Corporation, based in Honduras. EDF has opted not to specify their reasons for the decision or the details of the agreement they had under the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism “We have taken the […]
April 12, 2011
Honduran Unions Denounce the Lobo Administration’s Assault on Labor The United Federation of Honduran Workers (FUTH) has denounced what it is calling the targeted extermination of unions, led by the Lobo Administration. The denunciation comes on the tails of antiunion sentiment in the form of an increased number of threats, attempted murders, violations of collective […]
March 1, 2011
A peasant organizer is kidnapped and tortured, as his movement continues to occupy land claimed by corporations. by Jeremy Krit TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—As he rode his motorcycle home through the Aguán Valley of Honduras on the night of January 8, 2011, Juan Chinchilla noticed he was being followed. As the car closed in, Chinchilla, a 25-year-old […]
February 22, 2011
According to Foreign Minister, Mario Canahuati, billionaire Carlos Slim, considered the richest man in the world by Forbes magazine, has agreed to participate in the event “Honduras is Open for Business” to be held in May of this year in San Pedro Sula. The 70 year old Mr. Slim (of Mexico), is estimated to be […]
February 15, 2011
A poor country considers a new way to stimulate private investment. By Mary Anastasia O´Grady What advocate of free markets hasn’t, at one time or another, fantasized about running away to a desert island to start a country where economic liberty would be the law of the land? If things go according to plan, more […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
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