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By adminApril 7, 2017Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

Ben Linder – 30th Anniversary – Presente

Ben Linder, a young engineer from Oregon, was killed by U.S.-backed contra forces in Nicaragua on April 28, 1987 while working on a small hydroelectric dam in San Jose de Bocay. This year, the 30^th anniversary of his assassination, will be celebrated in Nicaragua with an evening gathering at the Ben Linder House in Managua on April 26^th and a tri

By adminApril 7, 2017Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

Ben Linder – 30th Anniversary – Presente

By adminMarch 6, 2017Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Senator Leahy statement on one year anniversary of the murder of Berta Caceres: “It sounds a lot like the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980’s.”

In a statement marking the one year anniversary of the murder of Berta Caceres, Senator Patrick Leahy called for an independent investigation into her killing. Expressing concern regarding reports that Honduran military officers involved in her murder received training by the United States, Senator Leahy stated, “It sounds a lot like the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980’s.

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/statement-of-senator-patrick-leahy-on-berta-caceres

By adminMarch 6, 2017Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Senator Leahy statement on one year anniversary of the murder of Berta Caceres: “It sounds a lot like the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980’s.”

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/statement-of-senator-patrick-leahy-on-berta-caceres

By adminFebruary 28, 2017Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Guardian: Berta Caceres killed in US trained military intelligence operation

The Guardian published a new article today based on their investigation and ”leaked court documents alleging that the murder of the Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres was an extrajudicial killing planned by military intelligence specialists linked to the country’s US–trained special forces.&quo

By adminFebruary 3, 2017Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

COFADEH statement on Honduran government response to Global Witness Report

The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, in this second vigil of 2017 in the Plaza of the Pañuelos Blancos in Tegucigalpa, joins in supporting the statement issued yesterday in San José Costa Rica by 33 Central American leaders and social organizations.

Human rights organizations and civil society from the throughout the region gathered at the Forum for Rights, declared their concern for the official reactions in response the Global Witness Report: “Honduras – The Deadliest Place

By adminFebruary 1, 2017Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

HONDURAS: The Deadliest Pace to Defend the Planet – a new report from Global Witness

Global Witness, a London based human rights organizationreleased a new report in January: HONDURAS – The Deadliest Pace to Defend the Planet.

By adminJanuary 25, 2017Nicaragua LibreNicaragua

Charlie Liteky – Presente!

The Friendship Office was saddened to learn of the passing of Charlie Liteky in January 2017. Charlie was a dear friend who marked our lives, the lives of many around the world and showed us what it means to be a peacemaker.

In the summer of 1986, following a vote in the U.S.