Bajo Aguán: a “special administrative region” for human rights violations
Peasant and popular organizations denounce a new wave of repression
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New U.S. Ship Deployment to Costa Rica Heightens Tensions
12/01/2011 by John Lindsay-Poland. The Costa Rican legislature on December 20 approved another deployment of dozens of U.S.
Radio interview with Honduras Delegation participant
Sarah Hogarth, participant in the Friendship Office delegation to Honduras, November 2010 was recently interviewed on WBAI, a local Pacifica affiliate in NYC. To hear the full interview: http://lawanddisorder.org/2011/01/law-and-disorder-january-31-2011/.
Bolivia stands alone at Cancun
Bolivia Information Forum, Jan.2011- During the December UN climate change conference in Cancún, Mexico, Bolivia was the only country not to sign up to the final agreement. Evo Morales described the document as a ‘bad result for the people of the world’, which would result in increasing and worse natural disasters.
Thousands march in Honduras today
A broad coalition of Hondurans (teachers, unions, GLBT community, Human rights defenders, young people, ordinary folks, etc.) participated in today’s march and demonstration organized by the Frente National de Resistencia Popular, the main organizing force against the coup d’etat and the repression that continues.
Mobilizations across Honduras today
Today, January 27th, marks the one year anniversary of the Lobo government which came to power through elections conducted by the defacto government responsible for the June 2009 coup detat and widely considered to be illegitimate. It also marks the one year anniversary of the forced exile of President Manuel Zelaya.
Accompaniment Delegation visits teachers jailed after yesterday’s protest
This morning, members of the Accompaniment delegation, responding to a request for human rights accompaniment, arrived at the police station where four teachers have been detained since yesterday. Other concerned citizens and representatives of the human rights community gathered outside of the police station this morning as well. Police, in riot gear had closed off both ends of the block. Eventually, delegation members were granted access to the jailed teachers as well as their attorney.
Accompaniment Delegation visits teachers jailed after yesterday’s protest
This morning, members of the Accompaniment delegation, responding to a request for human rights accompaniment, arrived at the police station where four teachers have been detained since yesterday. Other concerned citizens and representatives of the human rights community gathered outside of the police station this morning as well. Police, in riot gear had closed off both ends of the block. Eventually, delegation members were granted access to the jailed teachers as well as their attorney.
International Human Rights Accompaniment Delegation arrives in Honduras
The 10th Honduras Accompaniment Project delegation arrived in Honduras today to provide international human rights observation-accompaniment at this time when national and international actors focus attention on Lobo’s first year in office, the continued forced exile of President Zelaya and the deepening human rights crisis.
Peasant Leader escaped captors – Grateful for national and international pressure
After escaping from his captors, still physically and psychologically exhausted from the experience endured over the last 48 hours, the peasant leader of the Unified Peasant Movement of the Aguan (MUCA)and the National Popular Resistance Front (FRNP), Juan Ramón Chinchilla, agreed to an interview from an undisclosed location in Honduras.