Dana Frank TheNation.com May 5, 2011 In Honduras, it’s come to this: when 90 percent of the city’s 68,000 public schoolteachers went out on strike in March to protest the privatization of the entire public school system, the government teargassed their demonstrations for almost three solid weeks, then suspended 305 teachers for two to six months as punishment for
A New Coup against Honduras: The ‘Shock Doctrine’ Conference
by Laura González C. and Arturo J. Viscarra
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Members of the Authentic Movement for the Demands of the Campesinos of Aguan (MARCA) were victims of violent actions by the police, army and security guards in an attempt to evict them from the La Trinidad.
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Release Date: May 2011
April 23, 2011 – Two peasant leaders were found decapitated in the Bajo Aguán, Atlantic Honduras, after being captured by security guards of landowners in the zone, stated Gilberto Ríos, President of FIAN-Honduras.
Tegucigalpa – Douglas M. Fraser, Commander of the U.S.
Community radio stations still fighting to survive
DEG, an investment bank of the German government based in Cologne, announced yesterday in a letter to the International Committee of FIAN that after analyzing the land conflict in Honduras’ Lower Aguán they have decided to terminate their contractual relationship with Honduras’ Dinant Corporation.
