Honduras

Honduran Fishing Village Says Adios To Candles And Dirty Energy

October 12, 2015 Thelma Mejía, www.ipsnews.net Create! Honduras, Renewable Energy

By Thelma Mejía for IPS and Ecologist Horizons, PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 1 2015 (IPS) - A small fishing village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras has become an example to be followed in renewable energies, after replacing candles and dirty costly energy based on fossil fuels with hydropower from a mini-dam, while reforesting the river basin. They now have round-the-clock electric power, compared to just three hours a week in the past. The community, Plan Grande, is in the municipality of Santa Fe in the northern department of Colón, and can only be reached by sea, after a 10-hour, 400-km drive from Tegucigalpa on difficult roads to the village of Río Coco on the Caribbean coast.

Garifuna Communities Of Honduras Resist Corporate Land Grabs

October 5, 2015 Samira Jubis, www.coha.org Resist! Honduras, Land Right

By Samira Jubis for Council on Hemispheric Affairs - The fate of the Garifuna people of Honduras hangs in the balance as they face a Honduran state that is all too eager to accommodate the neoliberal agenda of U.S. and Canadian investors. The current economic development strategy of the Honduran government, in the aftermath of the 2009 coup against the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, has not only benefited the political and economic elite in Honduras, but it has also encouraged the usurpation of some of the territories of indigenous peoples of this Central American nation. The often-violent expropriation of indigenous land threatens the Garifuna’s subsistence. The Garifuna people are descendants of African slaves and two indigenous groups originally from South America—the Arawaks and the Carib Indians.

Newsletter: Transformation – Elections & Movements

September 20, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Bolivia, Democracy, Ecuador, Elections, Great Britain, Greece, Honduras, Jeremy Corbyn, NED, Occupy, Podemos, Scotland, Spain, Syriza, United Kingdom (UK), USAID, Venezuela

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance - The United States has unusual challenges for movements working in the electoral system. The two party system is deeply embedded in law and political consciousness so it is very hard for a party challenging Wall Street to be successful. Wall Street and big business are the dominant funders of both parties, the corporate media echoes their message and debates managed by the two parties through a phony “debate commission” keep out alternative views. People challenging that system have little opportunity to get their message out and be viable in the rigged US democracy. The relationship between movements and elections is complicated to navigate but to succeed we will need both an electoral and non-electoral movement that are independent of the corporate duopoly.

Hondura’s IMF Agreement May Make Conditions Worse

September 16, 2015 Center For Economic and Policy Research, www.cepr.net Educate! Finance and the Economy, Honduras, IMF

By Center For Economic and Policy Research - As the U.S. and Central American governments continue to discuss how to curb the number of people leaving Central American countries for the U.S. border, a new research paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that Honduras’ agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may prolong Honduras’ economic problems, which include high poverty, unemployment and high inequality. The paper, “Honduras: IMF Austerity, Macroeconomic Policy, and Foreign Investment,” by CEPR Research Assistant Stephan Lefebvre, notes that the agreement, which provides Honduras with $189 million in financing over three years, includes many austerity measures, despite the weak labor market and growing poverty, and provides almost no protections for the most vulnerable sectors of society.

Black US Farmers, Honduran Afro-Indigenous Share Food Prize

September 2, 2015 Heather, www.cagj.org Create! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Food and Agriculture, Honduras, Sovereignty

By Heather in Community Alliance for Global Justice - In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers, fishermen, and stewards of ancestral lands and water. We especially commemorate them as a vital part of our food and agriculture system – growers and workers who are creating food sovereignty, meaning a world with healthy, ecologically produced food, and democratic control over food systems. In 2015, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance’s two prize winners are: the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the U.S., and the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras. The prizes will be presented in Des Moines on October 14, 2015.

The Ugly Aftermath Of The US Supported Coup In Honduras

August 24, 2015 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! coup, Honduras, Imperialism

By Jonathan Marshall in Consortium News - Every Friday evening for the past three months, thousands of protesters have marched through the streets of Tegucigalpa and smaller cities, carrying torches and signs reading “The corrupt have ripped apart my country” and “Enough is enough.” The protesters, who call themselves the oposición indignada (the outraged opposition), demand that President Juan Orlando Hernández be held accountable for fraud and graft, which allegedly bled the national health service of more than $200 million to enrich senior officials and finance the 2013 election. “This is a really historic time in Central America,” said an analyst for the International Crisis Group. “The question is whether this will really turn into a critical juncture in which society, civil organizations, the private sector and political parties can . . . come together in making the best out of this opportunity [to begin] cleaning up our state institutions.”

Honduras’ Garifuna Communities Resist Eviction & Theft Of Land

August 20, 2015 Jeff Abbott, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Corporatism, coup, Finance and the Economy, Honduras

By Jeff Abbott in Waging Non-Violence - Along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, Afro-Caribbean Garifuna communities are being forced from their land, as proposals for the creation of mega-tourism projects and corporate-run cities, commonly referred to as “model cities,” gain momentum internationally. Congress is set to vote on one such plan this summer. Originally proposed by Vice President Joseph Biden in January, the plan would provide the governments of Central America $1 billion — on top of previously existing aid agreements — to bring further investment into the region.

Indigenous Communities Slam Mining Injustice In Honduras

July 11, 2015 TeleSur, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Environment, Honduras, indigenous, Mining, Peoples, Protests

By TeleSur - Communities condemn the corporate sell-off of land for mining extraction and the creation of a "transnational dictatorship" in Honduras. Indigenous people in Honduras are protesting an international conference on mining in the capital Tegucigalpa to condemn the human rights abuses committed at the hands of transnational corporations in their territories. While the Honduran government claims to be concerned about the environment and proposes “responsible and ecological” extraction, popular movements have slammed authorities for enabling environmental and human rights disasters through the whole-sale sell-off of Honduran territory to foreign mining companies.

Resistance In Honduras Alive And Jumping

June 23, 2015 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Resist! coup, Honduras

By David Swanson for his blog. Thousands and thousands of people in this little nation have taken back their land, occupied it, created communities, and built a future, with or without the coup. President Manuel Zelaya had said he would help. Oligarchs had seized land, or bought land and then devalued the currency. Miguel Facussé took over palm oil plantations, evicted people from their land, got richer than rich, and allowed cocaine flights from Colombia to land on his plantations with U.S. knowledge. The U.S. for years had been funding, training, and arming soldiers for the oligarchs of Honduras. The leaders of the 2009 coup that overthrew Zelaya had all trained at the School of the Americas in the United States. The U.S. assisted in the coup and in recognition of the coup government. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were part of and are part of this ongoing crime, and U.S. military supply shipments to Honduras are at record levels now as the military has merged with the police and turned its weaponry against the people.

Wave Of Protests Spread To Scandal-Weary Honduras & Guatemala

June 16, 2015 Elisabeth Malkin, www.nytimes.com Resist! Corruption, Guatemala, Honduras, Protest, Social Change

By Elisabeth Malkin in The New York Times - In Guatemala, angry citizens marched under pelting rain, undeterred. In Honduras, they carried torches at dusk. A wave of protests against corruption scandals that is sweeping across Latin America has reached Central America. The presidents of Guatemala and Honduras face allegations that people close to them have conspired to siphon money from threadbare public health systems or maneuvered to cheat the state out of tax revenue. Although neither President Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala nor President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras has been directly accused, growing numbers of protesters are demanding their resignations. Central Americans are no strangers to such malfeasance, of course. Former presidents and their associates in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala have been tried for corruption by their successors.

Human Rights Observers To Investigate IMF Privatization & Abuses

May 5, 2015 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Democracy, Honduras, Wars and Militarism

It’s now almost six years since a U.S.-backed coup unseated Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was faulted by both Honduras’s richest families and the Obama administration for steering his country out of the U.S. orbit toward Cuba and Venezuela. While those two countries had the power to defy Washington, Honduras isn’t so lucky. It houses our largest base in Central America, and wasn’t the original banana republic for nothing. Since the coup, the Honduran people have gone from bad to worse. It’s no accident that it was the largest sending country of unaccompanied children to the U.S. last year.

Honduras: Assassination Of Student Leaders Prompts Protests

March 31, 2015 TeleSur, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Honduras, Protest, Student Activism

Soad Ham, a 13-year-old student leader of the Central Institute of Tegucigalpa who participated in the student protests against the Honduran government in the last two weeks, was found tortured and killed inside a plastic bag Wednesday. On Thursday, the opposition Libre Party called for protests against the assassination Ham and 3 other student leaders this week. The largest public high schools in the country have been protesting against the decision to change the class schedule, which will mean that the students in the afternoon will leave their schools at 7 p.m. – a very dangerous hour for students to be on the streets of Latin America’s most dangerous city. Public high schools are generally located in areas riddled with crime, and there is no public transportation services at those hours.

Honduras: Model Cities To Be Corporate Controlled Mini-States

February 14, 2015 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Educate! Free Trade, Honduras, Neo-Liberalism

These charter, or “model” cities, significantly expand on the idea of free trade areas as they currently exist in places like Panama and Singapore. Unlike the zones in those countries, the ones planned in Honduras will not only be economically independent, but they'll be exclusively governed by corporations, both local and international, which will create and enforce their own laws in the territories ceded to them by the state. These Special Economic Development Zones (the Spanish language acronym is ZEDE) are based on the ideas of Paul Romer, an economist at New York University, whose initial plan was that “the charter city should be established in abandoned territory,” not only to develop these unused areas but also to ensure that people would not be displaced when they’re created.

Politicians On Both Sides Of The Border Dishonest About Migrant Crisis

July 21, 2014 Bruce A. Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Immigration, Nicaragua

What neither corporate media nor US Latino politicians will point out is that none of the current wave of refugees are coming from Nicaragua, although it has a similar history to Guatemala, Hondruas and El Salvador, and its just as poor. Why? According to NicaNet.Org, a project of the Nicaragua Solidary Committee. . . “The problem of the children migrants is blowback from US policy in the 1980s when our government trained and funded Salvadoran and Guatemalan military and police to prevent popular revolutions and more recently when the US supported the coup against President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. Those countries were left with brutal, corrupt armies and police forces whereas Nicaragua, with its successful 1979 revolution, got rid of Somoza's brutal National Guard and formed a new army and a new police made up of upstanding citizens.

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