Central America
Honduras: another journalist killed; toll reaches 37
Violence against Honduran journalists and opposition activists continues. The police dismiss most cases as common crimes.
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Central America
Honduras: two more opposition activists murdered
The wave of violence against LIBRE activists continue. Two have been killed, and one is fleeing the country because of threats to his life.
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Honduras: new party ‘breaks chains’ of old system
Two opposition parties charge fraud in the Nov. 24 election in Honduras. Did the vote restore democracy–or just aggravate the “social confrontation”?
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Honduras: opposition charges fraud in election
While the Nov. 24 election results remain in dispute, what is certain that the new center-left LIBRE coalition has ended Honduras' aging two-party system.
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Honduras: pre-election repression continues
A new report finds that the center-left LIBRE party has suffered more attacks and killings than all other political parties combined—and the violence continues.
Central America
Honduras indigenous leader’s detention challenged
Legal advocates are appealing to international bodies to block the detention of an indigenous leader whose crime seems to be supporting anti-dam protests.
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Honduras: indigenous, labor leaders under attack
In just one week, the leader of the main Honduran indigenous organization is imprisoned and the leader of a dockworkers’ union is attacked at his home.
Central America
Honduras grants title to Miskito territory
After 40 years of conflicts, protests and negotiations, the government of Honduras formally granted indigenous communities title to nearly all of the country’s remote Miskito Coast.
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Honduras: three campesinos killed at mine protest
Witnesses say two mine employees rode up to an anti-mining blockade, shot two protesters and then shot the owner of the house where the protesters had sought shelter.
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Honduras: Congress resurrects military police force
The Honduran government is planning to form a military police unit, despite the rights abuses that led to the abolition of the military police 1997. The US reportedly likes the idea.
Central America
Honduras: US-Korean maquila accused of CAFTA labor violations
US and Honduran unions are trying to leverage CAFTA labor agreements to get the government to act against a Lear Corporation auto parts assembly plant.
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Honduras: attacks on human rights activists increase
An indigenous leader, an Afro-Honduran LGBT activist and a judge working for judicial reform were killed, and two foreign rights observers were abducted—all in less than two weeks.