No coups in Latin America
26 January 2013 | Interviews | Free Honduras
Part of the reality of social movements in Mesoamerica is the mobilization and exchange of information among the groups that resist the extractivist process, says Juan Almendares, who travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico from Honduras to participate at the Mesoamerican Meeting of Struggle Against Mining held from January 17 to 20. Read more
13 December 2012 | News | Free Honduras
The Honduran oligarchy led by Porfirio Lobo seems to have noticed the recent victory in the internal elections of the party Libertad y Refundacion, made up basically of what used to be the National Front of Popular Resistance of Honduras that confronted the coup d’état against Manuel Zelaya in June of 2009. Read more
30 November 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing
The leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) Rafael Alegria, who has received death threats by businessmen and rural estate owners, talked about the 20 years of the organization. Read more
29 October 2012 | Chronicles | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Social activists at risk
Priest Miguel D'Escotto is the former chair of the United Nations General Assembly and foreign minister under the Sandinista administration of Nicaragua in the 1980s. He called for urgent solidarity with the peoples of Honduras and Guatemala, as part of an action of solidarity organized by the Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina). Read more
29 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Karla Zelaya is part of the communications team of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA), an organization fighting for agrarian transformation and fair distribution of lands in Honduras. She was kidnapped in Tegucigalpa, the country's capital, on October 23 and she made it out alive. But she was warned to keep her mouth shut. Read more
22 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Social activists at risk
Honduras is one of Central America's most problematic places in terms of conflicts over land, even more so after the coup d'état that ousted its constitutional President, Jose Manuel Zelaya, in 2009. Read more
17 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
“There is no doubt” that the death threats against social activists come from the “oligarchy”, “they are messages to give up our fight” in a country that the United Nations has ranked as the most violent in the world, said Honduran peasant leader Rafael Alegria. Read more
10 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The Minister of Security of Honduras, Pompeyo Bonilla, notified peasant leader Rafael Alegria that the government has information about a plan to plot against his life. President Porfirio Lobo confirmed the information provided by the Minister. Several social organizations of the country are extremely alert to defend the coordinator of Via Campesina Honduras. Read more
9 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
“Last week, on Thursday precisely, I was notified by the Minister of Security and by the President himself about plans against my life. They told me I should take the necessary steps and precautions”, said Honduran peasant leader Rafael Alegría, coordinator of La Via Campesina International, to Real World Radio. Read more
27 September 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
On September 22, 41 year-old Antonio Trejo Cabrera, the legal representative of the Authentic Peasant Movement of Aguan (MARCA), was shot to death near Tocontin International Airport in Honduras capital, Tegucigalpa. Read more
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