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Tegucigalpa, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Honduras and Canada will sign a free trade treaty on Friday that will open up both countries’ markets to traditional and non-traditional exports and boost investment. The treaty will be signed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, according to a government press release. The treaty […]
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 7, 2011
Uriel Gudiel Rodriguez, a Globo TV cameraman, was assaulted by police while covering the crackdown against students from the National University in San Pedro Sula, this Friday, May 6. Uriel has been threatened and beaten many times before by police for his coverage of the repressive police actions against the civilian population since the coup. […]
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 […]
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 […]
January 24, 2011
By Karen Spring, Rights Action “The Canadian government and mining companies that were granted concessions before the moratorium are waiting for the green light to get the digging started. A new mining law and/or trade agreement would be their green light. The Canadian government is aware of this and by holding out millions of dollars […]
January 23, 2011
by Tomas Andino On January 12, 2011 introduced into the Honduras National Congress was a bill that creates the “Special Administrative Region” or “Model Cities” (charter cities). These cities will be micro foreign states within Honduran territory, since, under the initiative, the State of Honduras waive the enforcement of its laws and institutions within those […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
August 10, 2011
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