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MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people
Thelma Gómez Durán | Mongabay
* As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (also known as Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH). This organization works ...
Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining
The Conversation
Giada Ferrucci
Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environme...
Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom
CRITERIO
Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. This Saturday, the judge Zoe Guifarro, of the Sectional Court of First Instance in Toco...
Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River
Wayka
Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that the State has failed to protect their health.
The Unified Defense Front (Frente de Defensa Unifi...
Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute
Jen Moore | Canadian Dimension
As gold prices soar to record levels, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, one of the country’s largest, has sat idle since early September after its owner, Vancouver-based Equinox Gold, failed to uphold its agreement with the nearby community of Carrizalillo, a smal...
The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras
Jennifer Avila y Danielle Mackey | Univision
An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park.
Discreetly and without public announcement, the largest steel producer in the United States, the...
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