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At the end of 2019, seven men were convicted for the murder of Berta Cáceres Flores, the well-known left-wing environmental activist and leader of the indigenous Lenca community in Honduras. [1] Two of the killers were previously trained by the US military. The court believes that they all acted (...)
On August 9, the Honduran government released two political prisoners who had been in a military-run prison for the past year and a half for their participation in opposition protests. NACLA spoke with one of the prisoners and his partner about his experience and the ongoing resistance movement (...)
The trial against Berta Cáceres’ accused assassins has been riddled with irregularities and bias—and barred the victims’ lawyers from participation. It is a tragic lost opportunity for justice in Honduras.
A vigil for Berta Cáceres at the Organization of American States on April 5, 2016. Berta’s (...)
UN confirms at least 16 people were killed by security forces, but six months on not a single indictment has been filed
Soldiers and police launch teargas at demonstrators in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in January. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
More than six months after security forces in (...)
The case of COLPEDAGOGOSH in Honduras
A Case Study by Fanny Erazo
Honduras has seen a sharp deterioration in its political and social situation in the aftermath of the 2009 coup d’état. Several basic rights such as the freedom of association, the freedom of unionization or collective (...)
Honduran popular movements continue to protest the fraudulent November 2017 election of a pro-US President and his cronies at Governor and Councillor level.
In November, 2017, Hondurans took to the polls to elect a new president, local governors and councillors. However, far from a smooth (...)
The U.S. State Department has endorsed the outcome of the November election in Honduras that is the most farcical electoral farce in recent history.
In the November election, staged by the U.S.-backed dictator Juan Hernández in hopes of polishing his image, he ran against Salvador Nasralla, (...)
The protests in the streets of Honduras are the latest chapter in the struggle for democracy and against U.S. imperialism in Central America, writes Arturo Rivera.
THE EXPLOSION of protest in response to Honduras’ fraudulent presidential election and the right-wing government’s use of police (...)
On November 26, 2017 national and local elections are scheduled in Honduras. This will be the third election since the U.S.-supported coup of June 28, 2009. Although more than eight years have passed, both resistance and repression continue. In fact the current coup regime led by President Juan (...)
On what would have been indigenous and environmental movement leader Bertha Cáceres’ 45th birthday [March 4, 2017], we reproduce this letter from her daughter Laura. Cáceres was assassinated in her native Honduras just before midnight one year and one day ago. Her birthday party had already been (...)
Four months after the assassination of award-winning environmentalist Berta Cáceres, an indigenous activist and member of her organization has been killed.
Authorities in Honduras have confirmed the murder of yet another indigenous activist, four months after the assassination of award-winning (...)
Since the country’s left-wing leader was ousted in 2009, LGBT people have faced a dramatic increase in the risk of torture, prison and murder.
The Index on Censorship, produced in the UK, looked at data from NGOs in the Central American country.
It found that since 2009, when president Manuel (...)
Human Rights
Position of the La Via Campesina in Honduras against the increasing criminalisation of the peasant and indigenous social struggle
We, the organisations belonging to La Via Campesina Honduras – The National Office of Rural Workers (CNTC); The National Association of Honduran (...)
PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MISSION TO HONDURAS: JUSTICE FOR BERTA CÁCERES AND COPINH March 17, 2016 Representatives of social networks from different regions of the world will travel to Honduras today as part of the International Mission “Justice for Berta Cáceres”. The mission (...)
The presidential candidate has ignored criticism of her role in enabling the consolidation of the Honduran coup.
Before her murder on March 3, Berta Cáceres, a Honduran indigenous rights and environmental activist, named Hillary Clinton, holding her responsible for legitimating the 2009 coup. (...)
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT
International condemnation of the murder of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras
March 4, 2016 - Planet Earth
Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokesperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (...)
On thursday morning 3 march at 01.00 is in her home Beatrice Caceras, the brave leader of the indigenous people murderd. She was the coordinator of the Council of Indigenous People of Honduras (COPINH). She was a key leader in a Lenca struggle against the Agua Zarca Dam, a controversial (...)
Honduran human rights and environmental activist Berta Caceres was assassiniated in her home, March 3, 2016.
For Honduras, the question is how long this dark nightmare of violence and repression will continue.
Today we learned of the savage murder of Berta Caceres, the outstanding Indigenous (...)
Nina Lakhani recounts an interview in 2013 with the Honduran human rights activist, who was murdered early on Thursday at her home in La Esperanza.
I met Berta Cáceres – the Honduran indigenous activist who was murdered at her home on Thursday morning – in December 2013, when she met foreign (...)
Washington continues to interfere in the internal politics of Honduras six years after the coup.
On June 28, 2009, School of the Americas-trained general Romeo Vásquez Velasquez led the military coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. The Honduran orchestrators of the coup and (...)
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