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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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Honduras

-OFRANEH The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) was created in 1979 to protect the economic, social, and cultural rights of 46 Garifuna communities along the Atlantic coast of Honduras. At once Afro-descendent and indigenous, the Garifuna people are connected to both the land and the sea, and sustain themselves through farming and fishing.

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Honduras

LAND & PEOPLE

POPULATION

  • 8,746,673
  • 90% Mestizo (mixed Native and European)
  • 2% Afro-descendant
  • 7% Indigenous
  • 1% White

GEOGRAPHY:

  • Bordering Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua
  • 43,278 sq. mi
  • Mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains

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