Honduras Resists :: Honduras RESISTE: Solidarity Statements / Comunicados de Solidaridad

May 21, 2012 - Tegucigalpa: A mobilization of hundreds of students from the Escuela Normal Mixta (teachers’ college) and the Universidad Pedagogical Nacional was repressed today leaving 17 students detained and once charged. The protest was in solidarity with two students who were expelled by university authorities and others who were sanctioned by the university for organizing student protests.
May 20, 2012 - Resistance member Jesus Pineda (55) was murdered by unknown gunmen the evening of May 19 in San Pedro Sula. The long-time activist and member of the FNRP and LIBRE was shot 5 times in the head by gunmen who reportedly were driving a white car and opened fire on Jesus about a block from his home.
May 19, 2012- In the Garifuna community of Cristales in Trujillo, Colon Julio Lino a member of the community and of OFRANEH was seriously wounded when the son of the property owner trying to displace the Garifuna from the land, Luis Crespo, came to the community and opened fire. Information from OFRANEH.
May 17, 2012 -At around 7:30 pm in Sonaguera,Colon in the Aguan two campesinos fron MUCA, Marañones settlement, cooperative Nueva Panama were fired on by unknown armed men. Jose Efrain Del Cid (41) was killed. The other campesino had just stepped out of the car and was not injured.There are 30 campesinos and activists in aguan under active death threats. There are 200 arrest warrants issued. Information from Observatorio Internacional de Derechos Humanos en Aguan
May 11, 2012 - 4 Hondurans, including 2 pregnant women were killed when a joint DEA and Honduran military operation fired on their small boat in the Miskitia region of the country. Other community members riding in the boat were seriously wounded. U.S. DEA agents were in the helicopter that fired on the boat. Two helicopters were supposedly conducting raids against narcotics traffickers in the region. The indigenous peoples’ organizations issued a statement denouncing the murder of innocent community members and the mayor of the community.
May 1-9, 2012On May 1, 2012 a member of the indigenous Lenca people’s organization COPINH, Santos Alberto Dominguez (24) was murdered by National Police troops in the town of San Bartolo in Intibuca province. On May 7, 2012 Erik Martinez Avila a journalist, GBLTI leader, member of Los Necios and LIBRE Party candidate was murdered. On May 8th Edilberto Solano, member of LIBRE and well known activist in Choluma Sur was murdered. On May 9, radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro was kidnapped and disappeared in Tegucigalpa. May 8, the body of Jose Antonio Lopez (46) resident of the community of Rigores was found near land belonging to Miguel Facusse. Lopez disappeared 3 days earlier after going to fish on the Aguan River; residents of Rigores report that Facusse’s guards were firing on fishermen. May 8th at around 3pm guards working for Miguel Facusse fired on members of the Campesino Movement of Rigores at the Paso Aguan plantation seriously injuring two campesinos.
April 19 - Thousands of workers, students, teachers and campesinos marched in 18 cities protesting the high cost of living, living conditions and demanding land reform, back pay for teachers and and end to abuses. The marches were organized by the trade unions, teachers, students, and social movements and supported by the FNRP-LIBRE.
April 17 - The CNTC, ANACH and other campesino organizations carry out land recuperations in 5 depts. (see main blog posting)
April 13 - Aguan Valley - two members of MUCA were detained by the police in Trujillo. One campesino was released with the explanation that it was "mistaken identity" the other remains in jail for procession of ammunition.

Interviews / Entrevistas

"Grandmother of the Resistance" Dionicia Díaz
English - Español

Recently freed political prisoner Agustina Flores López from Feminists in Resistance
English - Español

Augustin Ramos Montes of National Committee of Rural Workers (CNTC)

Betty Vasquez of Movement of Women in Resistance of Santa Bárbara
English - Español

Garifuna leader Fanni Elizsabeth Solarzano Castillo from Triunfo de la Cruz and National Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH)
English - Español

Indigenous leader Salvador Zúñiga from Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
English - Español

Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda from National Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH)
English - Español

Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres from Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
First interview / Primera entrevista: English - Español
Recent Speech / Discurso Recién: English - Español

Garifuna leader Teresa Reyes from Triunfo de la Cruz community on Honduran north coast
English - Español

Afro-Honduran leader Alfredo Lopez from National Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH)
English - Español

Peasant Leader Rafael Alegria from Via Campesina Honduras
First interview right after coup
Second interview / Segunda entrevista: English - Español

News Sources / Fuentes de Noticias

Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular - the official page of the resistance to the coup in Honduras with messages straight from those fighting to restore democracy to Honduras (Spanish only).

Radio Globo, Radio Liberada, Radio Progreso and Radio es lo de menos have radio updates (Spanish only) directly from the from the front-lines of the resistance in Honduras.

Rights Action has been doing good reporting and commentary as events unfold and has people on the ground monitoring the situation. They are also a reliable vehicle through which to get money to the organizations fighting for the restoration of democracy in Honduras.

Defensores en línea is the best (Spanish-only) online source for regularly updated information on the violation of human rights in Honduras.

Honduras Laboral is a regularly-updated blog in Spanish with the latest news coming out of Honduras, published by Community Communications.

School of the Americas Watch has good background information on the coup-plotters training at the Georgia-based School of the Americas / (also known as the School of Assasins) as well as news updates on the coup and a call to action.

Honduras Habla is a citizen-media project of Honduras with a variety of news updates and links to good, current information (in Spanish) about the resistance to the coup.

Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) - One of the organizations at the forefront of the resistance to the coup in Honduras.

Honduras en Lucha has excellent coverage (in Spanish) of the latest news.

Honduras Golpeada - "what they don't want us to know" (Spanish only). Another great site with updates about and condemnations of the coup d'etat.

La Voz de los de Abajo is a Chicago-based organization that has been working to organize solidarity with the Honduran resistance and to denounce the coup from within the U.S.. This blog (Honduras Resists) is published and maintained by La Voz de los de Abajo members.

Americas MexicoBlog and the Americas Policy Program have some good coverage and some English translations of interviews, statements and documents about the coup, the international response and the resistance.

Upside Down World is going good reporting on the Honduran coup.

Autores del Golpe de estado en Honduras - site with pictures of and information about the people responsible for the coup d'etat in Honduras.

Resistencia Honduras is one of the most comprehensive blogs out there (in Spanish) about the Honduran coup.

La Búsqueda has great coverage, including video and photos (Spanish only).

La Jornada is a major Mexican newspaper with excellent coverage of both the coup and resistance to it in Spanish.

Telesur is a television station based in Venezuela with excellent ongoing television coverage of the latest incidents.

Honduras Indymedia has good coverage in Spanish about the coup and the resistance to it.

Movimientos.org is doing great reporting (mostly Spanish) about solidarity with the Honduran resistance.

Latin America in Movement has a number of a good articles and statements on the Honduran coup.

NarcoNews is doing good reporting on the coup in English.

Rebelion - The magazine Rebelion has an excellent collection of articles with news and analysis about the coup in Spanish.

Which Way? - ¿Cual es la Ruta?

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