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  • 23 March 2011 | | |

    Not One Step Back

    Honduran peasants keep up the fight

    The Honduran peasant movement will submit a proposal for an agrarian reform to Porfirio Lobo's dictatorial regime. It is planning several demonstrations and land occupations on the same month, amid hard repression against the social movements in the country. Read more

  • 31 January 2011 | | |

    580 days of resistance

    A year since Lobo was inaugurated, resistance is growing in Honduras

    The Honduran organized peasant movement, which is a member of La Via Campesina, carried out demonstrations across the country on Thursday, to mark the first anniversary of Porfirio Lobo's administration, who is considered by the popular movement as a continuation of the coup d'etat perpetrated against president Manuel Zelaya. Read more

  • 18 January 2011 | | |

    Under threat

    Indigenous radio station closes down after fire threat

    On Friday, and after the constant threat suffered, the members of the garifuna community radio station Faluma Bimetu (Coco Dulce) from the Honduran city Triunfo de la Cruz, were forced to temporarily shut down the radio because they were running the risk of it to be set on fire. Read more

  • 11 January 2011 | | |

    Constant Harassment

    Honduras: Threats and Kidnappings Continue in Bajo Aguan

    Juan Ramón Chinchilla is an activist of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA) and the National Front of National Resistance (FNRP) in Honduras. He was kidnapped on January 8th, when he was getting out of a shopping mall in the community of La Concepcion and he was held in captivity for the following 48 hours. Read more

  • 3 January 2011 | | |

    A Bad Beginning Makes a Bad Ending

    2010 ends with harassment against grassroots organizations in Honduras

    The closing of 2010 in Honduras was not a reason for celebration for many organizations that oppose Porfirio Lobo's regime. There were reports of harassment and persecution against social leaders every day, according to the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP). Read more

  • 16 December 2010 | |

    Banking Game

    HSBC security officers repress peasants in Honduras

    Honduras is suffering a “wave of violence” against peasant communities and the “murder regime” of Porfirio Lobo is responsible. This is what the National Front of Resistance stated in a communiqué issued on Thursday, December 16th. Read more

  • 18 August 2010 | |

    Call to Strike

    Honduran resistance prepares massive mobilizations to support labour demands

    The National Front of Popular Resistance from Honduras, together with trade unions that are demanding an increase of the minimum wage; teachers and the Union of Workers of the Honduran National University, who has been on strike for over 100 days, are calling for a national mobilization that “could mark the beginning of an unprecedented strike in Honduras”. Read more

  • 17 August 2010 | |

    Democracy?

    Peasant leader murdered in Honduras

    “Today, peasant organizations from La Via Campesina Honduras received very bad news: our friend Teresa de Jesus Flores Elvir, 52, who fought all her life for the Honduran peasant movement, has been murdered”, reads a statement issued by La Via Campesina Honduras last week. Read more

  • 11 March 2010 | |

    Resistance Continues

    Honduran Social Movements prepare to have Constituent Assembly

    The resistance of the social movements in Honduras after the coup d´etat which took place on June 28th, 2009, continues, and remains strong in its claims and demands. Read more

  • 24 February 2010 | |

    No Change

    Honduras: two murders and death squads denounced

    Nothing has changed for Honduran social activists with the arrival of Porfirio Lobo as president. Persecutions, threats and murders are still commonplace in the Central American country. The Peoples´ National Resistance Front denounced yesterday at a press conference held in Tegucigalpa, capital city of the country, the murder of Vanessa Zepeda and Julio Funes, members of the organization, and the forced eviction of other activists. Read more

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