Honduras

On April 21, PBI-Honduras posted on Facebook: “Yesterday we observed the presentation of an action of unconstitutionality against Legislative Decree 154-2020, which provides for the suspension of the open face-to-face meetings established by the Municipalities Law, becoming made virtually.” PBI-Honduras comments: “This harms due process because only the population that Read more…

On April 19, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on Facebook: “Peace Brigades International-USA, along with 60 national and international organizations, are asking the U.S. Department of the Treasury to cancel the international funding of the Jilamito hydroelectric project in Honduras.” Key excerpts from this letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Read more…

PBI-Honduras is marking the International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17, with the above quote from the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC). It says: “We are self-organizing. We cannot just sit around waiting for the agrarian laws to help us.” The fuller quote reads: “We are self-organizing. We are Read more…

On April 14, PBI-Honduras posted: “Yesterday we observed the audience of seven defenders of the Choluteca River belonging to the organization Alternative for Community and Environmental Reclamation of Honduras (ARCAH). The judge issued a formal prosecution order and the oral and public trial will be held at the end of Read more…

On April 13, PBI-Honduras posted: “PBI accompanied ASODEBICOQ in its meeting with the communities of the El Listón sector, in the department of Santa Bárbara.” “People from various communities in the sector met to continue strengthening these common spaces and organizing the communities in their leadership for the defense of Read more…

Update: On April 7, the Associated Press reported: “The trial was suspended Wednesday as the defence team attempted to change the judge. The pause came just one day after the trial of Roberto David Castillo Mejía opened. The trial cannot continue until the Court of Appeals resolves the matter. It Read more…

“8 years after the taking of the Oak in defense of the Gualcarque River” In Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, Nina Lakhani writes: “Dressed in her customary getup of slacks, plaid shirt and wide-rimmed sombrero, Berta Cáceres stood on top Read more…

COPINH photo: “5 years fighting hand in hand for justice for Berta.” The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted: “Five years after his murder, the oral and public trial will finally begin against David Castillo, one of the alleged intellectual responsible for the murder of Berta Caceres.” It further notes Read more…