Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – “A complete overhaul of the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of the Attorney General is urgent,” said Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, COFADEH, as she called on the international community to suspend financial aid to these institutions, which she refers to as “death machines.”
Hundreds of peasant farmers, many of them members of the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (UNAG), travelled to Managua last week to present to the government a petition laying out the necessity of rescuing, conserving, and planting local seeds of Nicaragua’s food crops as a way to achieve food sovereignty and food security and prevent the introduction of genetically modified seeds. The petitions were given on Sept. 16 journalists have been murdered in Honduras since 2010, the most in the region besides Mexico. The United Nations on Wednesday formally launched a probe of abuses of freedom of the press in Honduras that have mounted since a 2009 coup in the Central American nation. UN rapporteur Frank de La Rue is leading the investigation of abuses that include 16 murders of journalists just since 2010. September 9, 2011(Washington, D.C.) – Honduras should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killings of dozens of peasants in the Bajo Aguán Valley, Human Rights Watch said today. 09/01/2011Translation by Adrienne Pine, original Spanish below
WikiLeaks Honduras: US Linked to Brutal Businessman
The Nation/Dana Frank – Since 2009, beneath the radar of the international media, the coup government ruling Honduras has been collaborating with wealthy landowners in a violent crackdown on small farmers struggling for land rights in the Aguán Valley in the northeastern region of the country. Over 46 campesinos have been killed or disappeared. Human rights groups charge that many of the killings have been perpetrated by the private army of security guards employed by Miguel Facussé, a biofuels magnate.
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September 15, 2011 – It is not surprising to hear that representatives of the U.S.
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Declaration from artists and intellectuals on the Bajo Aguán and human rights in Honduras
