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Mining megaproject illegally built on land destined for agrarian reform
Between 2017 and 2022, representatives of Inversiones Los Pinares, acting in complicity with officials from the administration of Juan Orlando Hernández – including Ramón Lara Bueso, former director of the National Agrarian Institute (INA), and Ilsa Lorena Torres, former congressional candidate from the Libre Party – illegally obtained title deeds
The carbon offset project promoted in Honduras’ La Moskitia in the absence of consultations with Indigenous peoples
A carbon offset project in Honduras’ La Moskitia has set off alarms among a faction of Indigenous Miskito authorities, who claim that there was no prior consultation. This project, which has been promoted by the Spanish non-governmental organization Ayuda en Acción and designed by the Swiss company South Pole sparked
The uniform of criminals and the state of emergency in Honduras
These are screams or whispers from people who have been abused, robbed, kidnapped, tortured and disappeared by alleged police officers during the state of emergency in Honduras. Authorities claim they are not to blame but rather criminal groups who impersonate police officers. However, victims hold the State responsible, and both
The violent and corrupt mafia in Honduras’ Bajo Aguán
After the fall of the Los Cachiros Cartel and its criminal allies, Adán Fúnez, mayor of Tocoa, remains a powerful figure in the department of Colón, in northern Honduras. How did he acquire so much power? His connections to organized crime and the support of the Libre Party’s top leadership
Coca in Honduras: Cultivating and Consuming Fear
Honduras went from being a transit hub for drugs to producing cocaine. Over the last ten years, the municipalities of Iriona and Limón, Colón department, have headed the list of locations where security forces destroyed coca plantations and cocaine laboratories. In the rest of the country, Honduran cocaine has boosted
The Valle Cartel: a criminal organization that returned to Honduras, where they are untouchable
Leaders of this criminal organization were indicted in the U.S., but some members have served their sentences and returned to Honduras, where they face no criminal charges. Following their apprehension and extradition in 2014, the Valles cartel was able to recover their assets, largely attributable to the slow pace of
FOTOGALERÍAS
Long-awaited and partial justice for Honduran political refugee in the U.S.
Monserrat is the daughter of Margarita Murillo, a Honduran leading...
The trial against JOH does not alter the existing reality in Honduras
“You have to learn to respect the opinions of others,...
New York, the sanctuary city holding the trial of former president Juan Orlando Hernández
Situated on one side of the train tracks in the...
