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U.S. Military Aid Fuels a Human Rights Crisis in Honduras
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 […]
U.S. Human rights activists document US participation in massacre of Moskito people
May 31, 2012
On May 22 and 23 a delegation of human rights activists from the United States organized by Rights Action and Alliance for Global Justice visited the community of Ahuás in the Moskitia region of Honduras. The delegation witnessed an atmosphere of terror being generated amongst dire poverty in an area where the indigenous people are […]
Two More Killings in the Aguan: José Efrain del Cid and Juan José Peralta Escoto
May 23, 2012
By Annie Bird, annie@rightsaction.org On Friday, May 18 at approximately 7:30pm, Jose Efrain Del Cid, a member of the Nueva Panama Campesino Business, one of the 14 campesino organizations that make up the Campesino Movement of the Aguan on the Left Bank (MUCA-MI), was shot while sitting in a car in the municipality of […]
Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?
May 23, 2012
by Dana Frank In some ways, it was just one more bloody episode in a blood-soaked country. In the early hours of the morning on May 11, a group of indigenous people traveling by canoe on a river in the northeast Mosquitia region of Honduras came under helicopter fire. When the shooting was over, at […]
Posted in: Impunity, US and Canada policy on Honduras
Observatory of Violence in Honduras: Annual Report 2011
May 18, 2012
The Observatory on Violence from the Democracy, Peace and Security Institute (IUDPAS), published the 24th edition of their Annual Report 2011, which reached eight uninterrupted years of providing reliable, systematic and heterogeneous data on the behavior of insecurity in Honduras from data collected by different official institutions. This is a comparative analysis of the years […]
U.S. Secret Drug War in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2 Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead
May 18, 2012
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has confirmed its agents were on board a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when four people were shot and killed on a boat earlier this week. Two of the victims were said to be pregnant women. The deadly incident has highlighted the centrality of Honduras in the U.S.-backed drug […]
Posted in: US and Canada policy on Honduras
NYT, WaPo Let Unnamed U.S. Officials Spin Honduras Killings
May 18, 2012
The details are somewhat murky, but we know the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is heavily involved in counternarcotics in Honduras. A shooting incident last Friday reportedly left four innocent people dead–including two pregnant women. Questions are being raised about whether they were shot by DEA agents who were apparently going after a boat carrying drug […]
Posted in: US and Canada policy on Honduras
HRW: Investigate Killing of Four Civilians
May 18, 2012
(Washington, DC) – Honduran and US authorities should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of the alleged killing of four civilians and wounding of four others during a joint counternarcotics operation in the Mosquitia region of Honduras. In the pre-dawn hours of May 11, a helicopter carrying members of the Honduran National Police and agents […]
Posted in: US and Canada policy on Honduras
Consequences of the military occupation
May 15, 2012
Although we have not read the official reaction of the U.S. Embassy about the tragic military actions of the Drug Enforcement Agency in detriment of the civilian population of the municipality of Ahuas in La Mosquitia, we can draw three preliminary conclusions. The first one is that the operation launched at night against suspected drug […]
Posted in: US and Canada policy on Honduras
Dead in Moskitia were not drug traffickers, according to authorities
May 15, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA.- The four people who died and four wounded in the anti-drug raid were not drug traffickers, but rather were honest, humble citizens, stated the Congressman from Gracias a Dios, Wood Grawell Maylo; and the mayor of the town of Ahuas, Lucio Baquedano. The attack occurred in the pre-dawn hours last Friday when a helicopter […]
Posted in: US and Canada policy on Honduras
CPJ condemns attacks against Honduran journalists
May 12, 2012
New York, May 10, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about a recent wave of violence and intimidation against journalists in Honduras, including the abduction of a radio journalist and two attacks on television journalists. “A climate of unrelenting hostility toward Honduran journalists is restricting the flow of news and eroding citizens’ right […]
Our Hope Is in Our Struggle: Reclaiming Land and Life in Honduras
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 […]
June 15, 2012
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