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By jennyaJanuary 26, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

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.

By jennyaJanuary 22, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

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.

By jennyaJanuary 11, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

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.

By jennyaJanuary 5, 2011Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

Nicaraguan Ambassador Responds to Washington Post Article

Nicaragua Network, Nicaragua News Bulletin: The Washington Post’s Christmas Day gift to Nicaragua was to publish an inflammatory and inaccurate editorial accusing the Obama administration of being "Soft on Nicaragua." The editorial invoked favorably Ronald Reagan’s war against Nicaragua which cost 40,000 Nicaraguan, mostly civilian, casualties. The editorial accused Nicaragua of "invading" Costa Rica and said that the Obama administration’s response was "an invitation to apply for foreign aid."

By jennyaJanuary 5, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Accompanying HOPE in 2011

It has been a tumultuous year. The human rights crisis and state sponsored terror rage on in Honduras. Torrential rains of climate change wreaked havoc in Nicaragua. U.S. militarization intensified throughout the region. Embolden by the U.S. elections; right-wing extremists have already set an ominous tone in Washington for policy towards Latin America in 2011.

By jennyaJanuary 5, 2011Honduras Accompaniment Project