Author Archives: honduras

Student killed in the struggle to defend public education in the department of Santa Barbara

The following is a translation of a statement circulated (in Spanish) on the La Compa mailing list (the mailing list of the members of the Convergence of the Peoples of the Americas). The original statement is below.

HONDURAS: Student killed on the battlefront for public education in the department of Santa Barbara

Human rights organizations in Honduras have yet to locate alleged war criminal

Note from the Friendship Office: This article was translated from the Honduran national daily newspaper El Tiempo print edition for Wednesday, August 10th. We were not able to find the article on the digital edition of El Tiempo at http://www.tiempo.hn. The original title of the article in Spanish is Organismos humanitarios todavía no ubican a supuesto criminal de guerra.

Honduran congress representatives reported to collude with transnational mining companies

These reports are particularly worrying in light of the current criminalization of members of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee and community members of El Porvenir and El Suyatal working to protect vital remaining forests and watersheds in their communities which also happened to be concessioned to transnational mining companies – reportedly Canadian companies.