Recently I had the privilege of participating as an observer at the second Encuentro Regional de Memoria (Central America Regional Gathering on Memory) which took place in Honduras May 24-27, 2022. Hosted by the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the gathering formed part of the International Week of Detained and
State of Honduras recognizes responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras in 1983 May 11, 2022 Today before the Inter American Court on Human Rights, the State of Honduras acknowledged full responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras García, union leader and member of the Communist Party and for violations of the human
San José, Costa Rica. – On Tuesday May 10th at 2:00pm, the family of social leader Herminio Deras García, will give testimony before the Inter American Court of Human Rights, 20 years after presenting the case internationally. The family of the social and political leader, Herminio Deras will speak about what they experienced during the
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE & CASA BENJAMIN LINDER DELEGATION: WOMEN IN NICARAGUA: POWER & PROTAGONISM Where: Managua, Carazo, Matagalpa & Estelí, Nicaragua When: 6 – 15 August 2022 (Arrive in-country no later than 6th Aug, leave 15th Aug) Cost: $75 per person/per day all-inclusive 9-day brigade. Total cost: $675 per person* To apply: Write to casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com Application deadline: 25 June 2022 Description: Nicaragua
In a new book, Extracting Honduras: Exploiting Resources and Forcing People to Flee, Dr. James Phillips documents the devastating “colonial (or imperial) extractive relationship of Honduras to the United States.” The book has just been published by Lexington Books… With a focus on Honduras, this book explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of
CASA BENJAMIN LINDER: LIGHT & LEGACY BRIGADE Where: Managua & San José de Bocay, Nicaragua When:25 April-2 May 2022 Cost: $75 per person/per day all-inclusive 9-day brigade. Total cost: $675 per person* To apply:Write to casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com Application deadline: 25 March 2022 Description: 40 years ago as a young juggler, unicyclist & electrical engineer, Ben Linder
August 30 each year is commemorated as the Day of the Disappeared in many parts of the world. In Honduras, labor unions, students and teachers organizations, human rights and women’s groups and others typically mark the day with a massive public march through some of the main streets of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. The march
Over 200 organizations have signed a letter telling the United States to STOP Interfering in Nicaragua. This letter was shared by an international delegation visiting Nicaragua that held a Press Conference in Managua at the Casa Ben Linder. *Go here To Sign the Letter*
Five years after her murder, the long search for justice in the case of Berta Cáceres continues. In 2016, Berta was murdered while supporting Indigenous Lenca communities in opposing the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Dam, a project of the Desarrollos Enérgeticos S.A. company, DESA. In 2018, seven men were convicted for her murder including an active
