Subscribe:
RSS feed
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
This is the first of a two-part series about the roots of violence in Honduras. Honduras is hot, mountainous and about the size of the state of Louisiana. According to the United Nations, the Central American nation is also the world’s most violent country. A mix of drug trafficking, political instability and history has contributed […]
January 26, 2012
by Dana Frank IT’S time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State […]
September 1, 2011
This morning in San Pedro Sula, Honduras public school students held a march protesting the privatization of education as part of activities parallel to state-supported “patriotic celebrations” in the lead up to National Independence Day on September 15th. At approximately 10:00 AM, at least fourteen students, most of them from the “Primero de mayo 1954” […]
August 28, 2011
Nahum Guerra, 17 years old, in his second year of agronomy studies at the “Pompilio Ortega” Agricultural School in Macueliso, Santa Barbara, was assassinated on August 22nd at 7:00pm while on shift with other student colleagues at the front gate of his college on the international western highway. Nahum and his student colleagues had taken […]
June 23, 2011
Crimes against Humanity and Other Human Rights Violations Occurred under Post-Coup Leader’s Authority and Direction June 23, 2011, Houston – Today, almost two years after the military coup in Honduras, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, on behalf of David Murillo and […]
June 2, 2011
Honduran teachers who have been on a hunger strike for 28 days publicly asked former president Manuel Zelaya to intercede on their behalf for the reinstatement of some 300 suspended teachers. The five teachers fasting in La Merced Square hope to meet with Zelaya, who returned to the country on Saturday, 23 months after a […]
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
Various teachers suspended from their jobs for one, two and six months began a voluntary fast for 24 hours on May 4 and have now declared themselves to be on an indefinite hunger strike and in a state of calamity. The educators who began the fast on Wednesday (May 4) outside of the National Congress […]
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 […]
May 2, 2011
Thousands of Hondurans took to the streets on May Day to demand an end to political persecution, respect for human rights, the repeal of hour labor and the safe return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales and creation of a National Constituent Assembly, among other points. The streets were flooded with people belonging to unions, employers’ […]
April 17, 2011
Tegucigalpa – Honduras Ministry of Education suspended 5.000 teachers who participated in the protests in March against the privatization of public education. According to the General Secretary of Education Anibal Delgado, teachers failed to comply with a controversial emergency decree which obliges them to return to the schools. The measure signed by President Porfirio Lobo […]
April 13, 2011
Unidentified arsonists set fire to the home of Teresa Reyes and Radio Faluma Bimetu director Alfredo López at midnight on 7 April, in the latest in a long list of attacks on the personnel and installations of this community radio station (known in Spanish as Radio Coco Dulce), based in Triunfo de la Cruz, in […]
April 13, 2011
Workers, students and activists have held a month-long general strike in Honduras to protest repression by the government of President Porfirio Lobo. Lobo came to power following elections under the regime of Roberto Micheletti, who seized power in a violent military coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. Honduras is one of […]
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 […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
February 11, 2012
0