March 23, 2007 Rights Action
	MINING MISERY: GUATEMALA IS ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES THAT HAS ATTRACTED THE INVESTMENT OF CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES - BUT AT WHAT COST TO ITS PEOPLE? -- Outside Chichipate, Martín Col Caal, a 21-year-old subsistence farmer, is cobbling together a makeshift shelter, using tree branches and palm leaves, for his wife and two young children. About 200 other indigenous families are here in the grassy valley, dubbing their new home Barrio de la Revolución -- Neighbourhood of the Revolution. Today, a steamy day in September 2006, more than 3,000 indigenous people from Chichipate and El Estor have set up similar households on five different sites, defiantly claiming the land as their own, land they say was stolen from their grandparents in the 1960s. Skye Resources, a Vancouver-based junior mining company, which bought the land from Canadian mining giant Inco in 2004, has different plans for the site. With the price of nickel at a 19-year high, Skye intends to re-open the mine in 2009, with construction slated to start this year. The indigenous occupants say they are not here to protest the mine--they simply need the land to subsist. But one of the five groups is sitting on a nickel deposit. Either the mining company or the squatters will have to go.
October 13, 2006 Rights Action
	Hoduras Update: 514 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance -- On (the infamous) October 12th, thousands of people and organizations participated in mobilizations and marches in different parts of Honduras to commemorate 514 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance. Far from limiting themselves to the continental day of action of the Cry of the Excluded, communities and organizations continue their ongoing work at the local and national level.
October 02, 2006 Rights Action
	Honduran Government Representative Threatens San Juan Community President -- The Patronato of the community of San Juan Tela (Durugubuty) and the community Lands Defense Committee denounce the intervention of Vice Minister of Culture Salvador Suazo the evening of Wednesday the 13th, when he arrived in our community, asking to meet with Jessica García, President of the Patronato and Wilfredo Guerrero of the Lands Defense Committee.
July 15, 2006 Rights Action
	First of two campesino political prisoner released. -- First of two campesino political prisoner released!!! After more than three years of illegal detention, including torture and continued attacks against the home community of the prisoners.
January 25, 2006 Rights Action
	African-descendant Garifuna communities suffer repression struggling against global tourist industry -- On January 15th, paramilitaries armed with illegal weapons opened fire on community leaders in the Garifuna community of San Juan de Tela, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Last November, Rights Action distributed an urgent action to support San Juan community leader Wilfredo Guerrero, whose home was the target of arson.
July 01, 2005 Rights Action
	HONDURAS: ONGOING STRUGGLES FOR INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS; ONGOING REPRESSION -- The third violent eviction of the community of Las Golondrinas was carried out on June 29 by State authorities and 'security' forces, who detained 10 community leaders and members. They have since been released, but it is unlikely that the repression against this community, located in the municipality of Marcala, department of La Paz, Honduras, will end with their release. This was the third violent eviction of Las Golondrinas, less than a month after the previous eviction on June 7.
June 29, 2005 Mother Jones Magazine
	MARCHING FOR LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSÉ TAMAYO -- A Honduran priest has organized a grassroots environmental movement to protest illegal logging and government corruption—with stunning results.
June 27, 2005 May I Speak Freely Media
	G8 Finance Ministers Cancel Some External Debt of Honduras and Other Poor Countries -- On June 11, finance ministers from the G8 countries˜the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan˜agreed to write off the external debt owed by 18 poor countries to international lending agencies such as the IMF.
June 27, 2005 May I Speak Freely Media
	U.S. Company Recruits Among Former Honduran Military for Iraq Security Positions -- A Chicago-based company called Your Solutions is evaluating Hondurans for security positions in Iraq and other countries in the Middle East.
June 27, 2005 May I Speak Freely Media
	Maya Chortí Protesters Block Entrance to Copán -- Indigenous Maya Chortí protesters associated with the National Congress of Indigenous Maya-Chortí of Honduras (CONIMCHH) blocked the entrance to the Copán ruins for the third time in recent years. (The other two protests were in 1998 and 2000). They are demanding the implementation of a 1997 agreement in which the government promised to distribute nearly 15,000 hectares of arable land among ethnic Chortís.
June 27, 2005 May I Speak Freely Media
	Honduran Court Convicts Former Battalion 3-16 Member for Murder of Activist -- In a rare legal victory for those fighting impunity for human rights abusers in Honduras, an appellate court convicted a former military officer and member of the notorious intelligence Battalion 3-16 for the murder of a leftist activist in the 1980s.
June 19, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	Community Member Shot -- On June 5, paramilitaries stabbed and wounded Feliciano Pineda, a leader of the Montaña Verde community in Gracias municipality, Lempira department in western Honduras. Pineda was left in critical condition with stab wounds to his face, neck, back, sides and hands, and a blow to his spine.
June 16, 2005 Rights Action
	URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED - Women's organization attacked -- La LuciÈrnaga [The Firefly], a small business that makes handmade candles, was set up by the organization ADP [ACCIONES PARA EL DESARROLLO POBLACIONAL] in September 1999 as a way of generating funds to support their refuge for women and girl victims of violence. The profits from this business are used to maintain the women's refuge which offers physical and psychological support for victims of violence, many of them pregnant, and their children.
June 01, 2005 Rights Actions Newsletter
	(MORE) REPRESSION AGAINST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LEADERS -- We summarize here information concerning cases of repression against Rights Action community development partner organizations. These are two among the endemic climate of repression against community development and indigenous movements in Honduras and the region.
May 15, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	More Anti-Cafta Protest -- Some 300 indigenous people and campesinos from the Honduran provinces of Intibucá, Comayagua and Santa Bárbara protested on May 11 in front of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa to demand that DR-CAFTA not be ratified.
April 13, 2005 The Guardian
	Negroponte tried to undermine Central America peace process -- The man chosen by George Bush to be the new US director of national intelligence yesterday denied that he had covered up human rights abuses when he was Washington's ambassador to Honduras.
April 04, 2005 Nicaragua Network Hotline
	Honduran Claims are Denied that FARC Members Operate in Nicaragua -- On Mar. 29 and 30 a meeting of the heads of Central American Police Intelligence took place in Managua to discuss the regional problem of international drug and arms trafficking. In recent weeks the Honduran authorities have made claims that members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) are carrying out sales of drugs for weapons in Nicaragua, claims that are denied by the Nicaragua Police, Army, and Minister of Governance Julio Vega.
March 13, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	Cafta Protest Shuts Roads -- Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated across the country on March 8 to protest the National Congress’s March 3 vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The protests were organized by the Popular Resistance, which estimates that CAFTA will drive 300,000 campesino families out of business, forcing 800,000 Hondurans into unemployment.
March 09, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	CAFTA Passes Amid Protests -- Across the country, more than 2,000 Hondurans took to the streets March 8 to protest the National Congress’s ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
March 07, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	Pesticide Suit -- More than 700 former banana plantation workers sued Standard Fruit Company March 6, seeking $137 million in damages for the company’s use of Nemagon, a banned pesticide.
February 23, 2005 COHA
	A “Salvador Option” for Iraq? Negroponte’s nomination changes the ground rules -- The designation of John Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence recalls the Central American wars of the 1980s, where he played a critical, if deeply controversial, role as U.S. ambassador to Honduras, 1981-85. Despite feigning amnesia while questioned, Negroponte implicitly participated in questionable events at the time, including bribes handed down from the embassy to high ranking military and government officials and ties between Honduran death squads and the witnessed massacres of dissidents in nearby El Salvador and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
February 15, 2005 Nicaragua Network Hotline
	Danger of Armed Conflict between Honduran Army and Indigenous Communities -- The Atlantic Coast Ecumenical Council, comprised of Catholic and Moravian religious leaders from the Caribbean Coast, has warned that "at any moment" an armed conflict between the Honduran Army and indigenous communities from the border region could break out.
January 04, 2005 Houston Chronicle
	Suspect arrested in massacre on public bus -- TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — President Ricardo Maduro said Monday that police have arrested the alleged mastermind of an attack on a public bus that left 28 passengers dead two weeks ago.
December 26, 2004 Resource Center of the Americas
	28 Killed in Bus Attack -- On the evening of December 23, in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, several heavily armed individuals opened fire at a public bus, then boarded the bus and shot the passengers at close range. At least 16 people died at the scene, and by December 26, the death toll had reached 28—including seven children—with another 17 people wounded.
October 13, 2004 MercoPress
	Honduras Declared Free of Land Mines -- The Assistance Program for Removing Mines in Central America, PADCA, finished last Friday clearing Honduran territory from dangerous war devices left over from the eighties in the midst of the Cold War.
August 04, 2004 Americas.org
	Chiquita Workers on Strike -- The union representing banana workers at the Tela Railroad Company, the Honduran subsidiary of the Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International, Inc., announced on July 28 that it was starting an open-ended strike at 10 packing plants to demand the rehiring of five workers fired on July 24.
January 01, 2001 Rights Actions Newsletter
	(MORE)REPRESSION AGAINST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LEADERS -- We summarize here information concerning cases of repression against Rights Action community development partner organizations. These are two among the endemic climate of repression against community development and indigenous movements in Honduras and the region.