Exiled: Honduran Human Rights Defenders and Effects of U.S. Policies
By Brooke Denmark Witness for Peace International Team – Nicaragua After a meeting with a rural community in Northern Honduras, we were...
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- Oct 20, 2011
- 3 min
“We can neither eat bullets nor guns”: the impact of U.S. military aid on Garifuna commu
By Riahl O´Malley and Brooke Denmark Witness for for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Driving into Triunfo de la Cruz, a Garifuna...
- Aug 19, 2011
- 2 min
Reports on Violence in Bajo Aguan Fail to Capture Complexity of Conflict
By the Witness for Peace International Team, Nicaragua Early this week, several major news outlets ran stories concerning continued...
- Jun 28, 2011
- 2 min
Honduras: Two Years After Military Coup, U.S.-Backed Repression Continues
By Riahl O’Malley International Team Witness for Peace Two years ago today, Manuel Zelaya, then the democratically-elected president of...
- Jun 1, 2011
- 2 min
Zelaya is back – but the human rights crisis in Honduras continues
The Organization of American States has readmitted Honduras to the association, two years after the military coup that led to widely...
- Apr 14, 2011
- 2 min
Embattled Honduran Radio Station Reaches First Birthday
“The security forces have the power and the weapons. What do we have? Our voices?” Noelia Nuñez, Honduran human rights lawyer Changes to...
- Mar 30, 2011
- 1 min
Today: International Day of Action in Solidarity with Honduras
By Brooke Denmark, Christine Goffredo and Riahl O’Malley International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace In Tegucigalpa teachers,...
- Mar 22, 2011
- 2 min
The Truth Commission vs. the True Commission: a report from Witness for Peace in Honduras
By Brooke Denmark International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace The official Honduran Truth Commission has finished its investigations...
- Mar 20, 2011
- 1 min
Honduran Teacher Killed During Military Repression of Peaceful Protest
By Christine Goffredo International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace Yesterday in Honduras’ capital city of Tegucigalpa, members of...
- Dec 9, 2010
- 2 min
Open and Shut: a Case of Hypocrisy and the Honduran Coup
By Brooke Denmark, Witness for Peace International Team Leaked State Department cables recently shed light on what was going on behind...
- Aug 27, 2010
- 1 min
Support Teachers in Honduras
Teachers’ strikes are not something new in Honduras. As lawyer Nectalí Rodezno noted, teachers’ strikes are a nearly annual occurrence...
- Jun 28, 2010
- 1 min
A year after the coup in Honduras
One year ago today, this is the situation that the citizens of Honduras were dealt when soldiers forced President Manuel Zelaya from the...
- Mar 8, 2010
- 5 min
“Don’t Close Your Eyes”: Honduran Journalist César Silva Speaks Out
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team César Omar Silva Rosales – a journalist, filmmaker and member of the Honduran...
- Jan 28, 2010
- 4 min
Whitewashing the Coup
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo, winner of Honduras’ controversial November 29, 2009...
- Nov 29, 2009
- 2 min
Empty Streets on Election Day
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Tegucigalpa woke on ‘election’ day to eerily quiet streets. The few taxis working...
- Nov 28, 2009
- 3 min
Tragedy and “Tranquility” Reveal Dual Realities in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team On the eve of Honduras’ “elections,” Angel Sagrado lays in critical condition in a...
- Nov 27, 2009
- 3 min
Will Election Observers Understand the Context of the “Elections”?
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team “The three emotions you will see most prevalently this weekend are fear, uncertainty...
- Nov 26, 2009
- 2 min
The Pre-Election Environment in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Young girl lights a candle at a vigil for the International Day Against Violence...
- Nov 10, 2009
- 2 min
U.S. Hands Victory to the Coup Regime in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Last Friday Manuel Zelaya declared from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in...
- Nov 6, 2009
- 2 min
More Delays in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team The initial optimism inspired by last Friday’s announcement of an agreement signed...
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