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 tourist resort in the area. The lives and physical and mental integrity of the members of the community are in danger. 

Continue reading →