African Palm Corporate Death & Destruction
in Aguán Region of Honduras
During 13 years of U.S. and Canadian-backed ‘narco-military regimes’ from 2009-2022, Rights Action worked extensively in the Bajo Aguan valley of northern Honduras. After the 2009 coup, killings, forced evictions and repression spiked higher, as the World Bank and global food industry conglomerates increased investments and business relations with Honduras’ land barons and, principally, the Dinant Corporation, to increase production of African palm for global food industries and “green energy” markets. The killings continue today. From 2009-2015, this work was spearheaded by former Rights Action colleagues Annie Bird (annie@rightsandecology.org) and Karen Spring (spring.kj@gmail.com).
2010 November 17 - Violence and Death in Aguán Valley, FIAN report on killings of campesinos, and Urgent Action from “Friendship Office of the Americas”
2010 November 29 - “Conflict and Militarization Continues in Aguán Valley After Massacre of Campesinos”, by K. Spring
2011 January 10 - Urgent Action, “State-Sponsored Disappearance of Juan Chinchilla
2011 June 9 - “Honduras Re-Admitted to the OAS: 3 Killed; 2 Kidnapped in the Aguán”, by A. Bird
2011 August 2 - “Honduran Police Burn Community to the Ground”, The Real News Documentary Film
2011 September 19 - “Biofuel (the New Banana) Republic”, NACLA blog by S. Reiss
2012 April 20 - Urgent Action - More State & Corporate Repression in Aguán Valley
2012 July 5 - “Gregorio Chavez Kidnapped & Disappeared in the Aguán”, by A. Bird
2012 August 23 - Letter from Rights Action to Canadian Embassy; Action request
2013 February 14 - “The War on Peasants”, Huffington Post Article by E. Holt Gimenez
2013 March 7 - Rights Action Letter to World Bank and U.S. Treasury Department; Action Request
2013 June 4 - “Aguán Campesino Movement Leader & Son Killed, Wife Injured”, by A. Bird
2015 May 10 - “Death Valley: The Land War Gripping Honduras”, Irish Times Article by S. Pollack