Two months ago, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his home at gunpoint by 300 troops. He was forcibly put on a plane and has only managed to step foot in his home country for roughly two hours since. In the meantime, a de facto government has assumed power, violently punishing all those who [...]
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Political instability resulted in abuse of human rights and democracy in Honduras
Posted in Honduras on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harassment of the Garífuna community in Honduras
Posted in Honduras, tagged Garífuna on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leaders and members of the Afro-descendant Garífuna community in the village of San Juan Tela, Atlantida department, northern Honduras have been subjected to a campaign of harassment. This is an apparent attempt to force them to hand over land that they have owned for generations to a real estate company, which has proposed building a [...]
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