Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo: Another Disaster for Central American Democracy Waiting in the Wing
by COHA Senior Research Fellow Adrienne Pine
Honduras Accompaniment Project
Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
Honduras Repressed / Honduras Reprimido
Por: Cesar Omar Silva R- Periodista Independiente
Este impactante video fue producido por César Silva, un publicista que antes del golpe en Honduras trabajaba para Canal 8, el canal de televisión del estado. El video fue hecho en colaboración con Edwin Renán Fajardo Argueta. Después del golpe, Canal 8 dejó de estar bajo el gobierno de Zelaya y César continuó su trabajo como periodista independiente y en colaboración con Edwin.
IACHR PUBLISHES REPORT ON HONDURAS
Washington, D.C., January 20, 2010 — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today published the report entitled Honduras: Human Rights and the Coup d’État. The IACHR conducted an on-site visit to Honduras on August 17-21, 2009, and prepared this report, which covers the human rights situation from the time of the coup that overthrew the democratically elected President on June 28, 2009.
Unified Peasant Movement Alert: More are captured
January 13, 2010 – At 1:30pm, a military and police patrol captured three members of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan along the Aguan river. The men are members of the Buenos Amigos Cooperative in the municipality of Trujillo. According to farmers in the zone, there are approximately 1000 armed men, military and paramilitary, under the command of Coronel Dagoberto Melgar occupying the area. He is suspected of selling protection services to large African palm plantation owners in the region.
Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan
Unified Peasant Movement Alert: More are captured
January 13, 2010 – At 1:30pm, a military and police patrol captured three members of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan along the Aguan river. The men are members of the Buenos Amigos Cooperative in the municipality of Trujillo. According to farmers in the zone, there are approximately 1000 armed men, military and paramilitary, under the command of Coronel Dagoberto Melgar occupying the area. He is suspected of selling protection services to large African palm plantation owners in the region.
Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan
COFADEH Urgent Alert: Police and military repress peasants in Trujillo and Tocoa
Jan 8, 2010 – A heavy contingent of military and police began to violently remove peasant families occupying land in Trujillo and Tocoa in the department of Colón. This marks an avalanche against this social movement on the part of a justice system that colludes with elite power groups and underscores the need to re-found the country according to Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH.
Honduras – Garifuna Community Radio Attacked
Urgent! Attack against Garifuna community radio in Triunfo de la Cruz
Today, early this morning, the Faluma Bimetu community radio was the victim of an attack carried out by unknown authors who set fire to the room where the community radio was installed.
Message from teachers in Honduras
Since the disputed election at the end of November, repression of the resistance in Honduras has continued. A number of activists have been killed and others detained and beaten badly. Because of the role the teachers were playing in the resistance, the government shut the schools for holidays a month early, at the end of October instead of November. The government has tried to make up the month of missed classes by starting school a month early—as of today, January 4.
COFADEH Vigil on New Years Day – Warnings of Death Squads and Dirty War
From Military Coup de tat, to illegitimate government of force – Entering the year 2010
This week’s kidnapping, disappearance, torture and interrogation of journalist Cesar Omar Silva by a street patrol with military training confirms the existence of a pattern of systematic violations of human rights committed by the same structure that violated the constitutional order on June 28, 2009.
This pattern is the responsibility of the “hard hand” of the coup regime that imposes state violence on a citize