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The Different Logics within the Honduran Resistance: An Interview with Bertha Cáceres

July 4, 2011

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Written by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber On June 18, 2011, during a two-day assembly of the Espacio Refundacional (Refoundational Space) current of the Frente Nacional de la Resistencia Popular (National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP), we caught up with with Bertha Cáceres, General Coordinator of Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares y Indígenas de […]

Rigores Community Attacked and Burned (Tocoa, Cortez, Honduras) – Poloce Draw Guns on Human Rights Observer Delegation from the US and Canada

July 4, 2011

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On July 1, 2011 a group of 18 US and Canadian citizens visited the community of Rigores, Tocoa, Cortes (as part of a delegation with the Alliance for Global Justice and Rights Action) to learn about the violent and illegal eviction which had occurred there on Sunday, June 26. At approximately 9am (July 1), while […]

The Rigores peasant movement suffers violent eviction

July 4, 2011

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“The soldiers came with an eviction order saying we had weapons” Saturday July 2, 2011. On Friday June 24 the judge of letters from the city of Tocoa, Josue Mejia Pagoada issued an eviction order addressed for Rigores Peasant Movement in Lower Aguan. When it took place hours later, 114 houses were demolished (valued at 14,000 Lempiras […]