Garifuna protesters camped out in front of the Honduran Supreme Court for several weeks to demand justice for activists facing charges for resisting a violent, illegal eviction in San Juan, Tela. This is due to the new Agro-industrial Development Law, which favors private interests at the expense of rural or urban communities, sparking Garifuna resistance.
La Voz de los de Abajo (Voices from Below) sponsored a delegation to Honduras in September, three years after the 2009 coup which deposed the elected President Manuel Zelaya.
Under his successor President Lobo, violence escalated. Seventy Aguán campesinos (peasants) were murdered in three years.
Honduras’ homicide rate is the highest in the world. Lawyers, politicians, human [=>]
