NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other tourism invaders, criminalize 73-year old Garifuna woman defending her own land
NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other covetous tourism invaders, use the corrupt Honduran legal system to bring trumped up charges against Silvia Bonilla Flores, a 73-year old Garifuna woman, and 32 other community members defending their lands coveted by the imperialist tourism industry. (Photo: OFRANEH, June 16, 2021, Silvia Bonilla Flores)
Tourism imperialism & ethnocide
For decades, and particularly since the 2009 US and Canadian-backed military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government, tourism invaders (“investors”) have collaborated with corrupt and repressive Honduran regimes - headed by military-backed Presidents Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo and Juan Orlando Hernandez - to push aggressively ahead with illegal, oftentimes violent land grabs.
Both regime Presidents have family members in jail in the US on drug-trafficking convictions. Both have been directly implicated in drug-trafficking themselves, by US prosecutors.
This is US and Canadian foreign economic policy at work. The US and Canada maintain full relations with the Honduran regime, considering it a staunch “democratic allie”.
Background
Garifuna people between jail and grave – Two more killed
Is Honduran repression against Garifuna land defenders benefitting tourism companies, like “NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences” of Canada?
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/garifuna-people-between-jail-and-grave
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NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences
14-7500 ON-27, Woodbridge, ON Canada, L4H 0J2, Canada
Tres Conchas, 3 km Carretera de Santa Fe, Trujillo, Colon, Honduras
Toll free: +1-888-960-NJOI (6564)
Toronto: +1-647-998-NJOI (6564)
Honduras: +504-9584-6848
https://www.njoitrujillo.com/
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More information
OFRANEH (Organizacion Fraternal Negra Hondureña): @ofraneh, garifuna@ofraneh.org, www.ofraneh.org, http://www.ofraneh.wordpress.com
Honduras Solidarity Network: Karen Spring, spring.kj@gmail.com, @hondurassol, www.hondurassolidarity.org
Rights Action: Grahame Russell, info@rightsaction.org, @RightsAction, www.rightsaction.org