REUTERS/Edgard GarridoThe International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Honduran TV news host Francisco Medina, the sixteenth journalist killed in the country since the beginning of 2009.Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Medina, 35, early Tuesday morning outside of his home in Morazon north of the capital of Tegucigalpa. Reports said the attackers followed Medina as he left work and shot him three times in the back and once in his arm.
We are a delegation of the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH that has come to Honduras to learn about the current situation of human rights in the country. SOAW previously came to Honduras immediately following the June 2009 coup orquestrated by SOA graduates GeneralRomeo Vásquez and General Luis Prince Suazo. We return to get first hand information about the human rights situation in the country under the regime of Porfirio Lobo.
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.
