Unknown assailants gunned down activist attorney Antonio Trejo, who was active in two major political conflicts: the AguĆ”n land and a struggle over the “Model Cities” project.
A government commision has signed an agreement for the first of three “model city” projects, semi-autonomous regions mandated under a controversial 2010 constitutional amendment.
Dole Food has finally begun funding a settlement it made more than a year ago with some 5,000 former banana workers with health problems linked to the use of pesticides.
Five people died violently in the AguƔn region in less than a week; at least two of the deaths appeared related to campesino struggles for land now held by big landowners.
Some 45 campesinos from Honduras’ conflicted AguĆ”n Valley were arrested in protests demanding the Supreme Court issue rulings in favor of campesino struggles for land.
A total of 25 high school students from the Honduras Technical Institute in Tegucigalpa were arrested when the National Police broke up a protest with clubs and tear gas.
The situation in northern Honduras’ Lower AguĆ”n Valley, where land disputes have led to as many as 70 deaths in the past three years, remained tense and confused as of July 20, with prior agreements and court rulings apparently being contradicted… Read moreHonduras: more evictions, more occupations in the AguĆ”n
A court in Honduras convicted seven men in the 2016 murder of indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres. Until her assassination Cáceres had been leading a campaign against the Agua Zarca dam, a joint project by Honduran company Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA) and Chinese-owned Sinohydro. The dam was being built on the Rio Gualcarque without prior consultation with the Lenca indigenous community that depends on the river for their food and water. Cáceres, who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, had received numerous threats for her activism against the dam before she was killed by gunmen at her home in the town of La Esperanza. Two of those convicted are former DESA managers. (Photo by UN Environment/ONU Brasil via Wikimedia Commons)
