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Honduras: News & Updates

Honduras did not experience civil war in the 1980s, but its geography (bordering El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) made it a key location for US military operations: training Salvadoran soldiers, a base for Nicaraguan contras, military exercises for US troops. The notorious Honduran death squad Battalion 316 was created, funded and trained by the US. The state-sponsored terror resulted in the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of approximately 200 people during the 1980s. Many more were abducted and tortured. The 2009 military coup d’etat spawned a resurgence of state repression against the civilian population that continues today.

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Honduran journalist convicted in 2016 could go to prison after confirmation of sentence
January 11, 2019
Journalist David Romero Ellner, director of Radio Globo, and another group of journalists from the same media outlet, were sued in 2014 by former public prosecutor Sonia Inés Gálvez, wife of the former assistant attorney general of the Republic of Honduras, Rigoberto Cuellar. As a result of that suit, Romero was convicted in a criminal court for six crimes of defamation and injuria. The journalist appealed, but the magistrates of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice unanimously confirmed the sentence issued in 2016.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras 12/26/2018
December 26, 2018
Ongoing criminalization and judicial harassment of Juana Carranza, a member of the Reyes Rodríguez Arévalo Campesina Cooperative, which is affiliated with the Yoro regional branch of the National Field Workers Office (CNTC) in El Progreso, Yoro Department.
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Berta Cáceres: seven men convicted of murdering Honduran environmentalist
December 1, 2018

Berta Cáceres: seven men convicted of murdering Honduran environmentalist

Nina Lakhani in Tegucigalpa

Sat 1 Dec 2018

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News Article
Seven Convicted in Killing of Prominent Honduran Environmentalist
November 30, 2018

Seven Convicted in Killing of Prominent Honduran Environmentalist

By Elisabeth Malkin Nov. 29, 2018

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras 11/26/2018
November 26, 2018
Media smear campaign that is being carried on against Juana Esquivel, director of the Fundación San Alonso Rodriguez in Tocoa, Colón Department.
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News Article
Mexico to deport up to 500 migrants who tried to cross US border
November 26, 2018
US briefly shuts crossing and fires teargas to repel groups of people including children
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras 11/23/2018
November 23, 2018
physical attacks on journalists who were covering the eviction of more than 350 persons from the Encampment for Life in the community of El Guapinol, Tocoa in Colón Department. The eight journalists are Rigoberto Mendoza, Osmán Corea, Vitalino Álvarez and Erick Mendoza (Comunicaciones Mendoza); Jhony Castillo (Canal 5), Wenceslao Canales (Canal 29); Donaldo Domínguez and César Obando (Radio Progreso); and Miguel Dubón (Radio Globo).
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News Article
They’re killing us in Honduras with U.S.-made guns, some in caravan say
November 23, 2018

They’re killing us in Honduras with U.S.-made guns, some in caravan say

BY SARAH BLASKEY

published on Miami Herald

November 23, 2018 

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras 11/11/2018
November 11, 2018
Violent eviction in the community of El Guapinol, Tocoa municipality, in Colón Department. On October 23 we wrote to you about our concern at the eviction order for the environmental defense organization Encampment for Life and the issuing of arrest warrants for 18 of its members (cf our letter of Oct 23).
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Honduran killed in Mexican border crackdown on migrant caravan
October 29, 2018
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas as more than 1,000 migrants and refugees attempted to cross border into Mexico.
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