• Statement by Honduras Coalition Against Impunity

• Emergency support needed for OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras), the lead Garifuna organization

Here, Rights Action re-publishes “The Threat of Progress: Visiting Garifuna Country in Honduras”, written in early 2006. Author Tory Russell wrote this vivid account of Garifuna life, culture and land, based on a 2005 year-end visit she made to the north shore of Honduras to provide human rights accompaniment to Gregoria Flores, former general coordinator of OFRANEH, shot twice on May 30, 2005, in La Ceiba. Gregoria survived the assassination attempt, but was forced into hiding. In late 2005, Gregoria traveled to her home community of Triunfo de la Cruz to attend to unfinished business, before going into exile in the US where she applied for asylum.

In the midst of the Covid19 pandemic - that is obviously devastating a majority of the Honduras population, and particularly indigenous and African descendant peoples – Honduran state and private sector violence and ethnocide continue unabated against Garifuna people along Honduras’ north Caribbean shore.

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(Janet Spring (Edwin’s mother-in-law) writes: Edwn Espinal gives an update on the situation in Honduras. Find my latest Springwater News article below, which also reports on the food distribution programs that SCHRM is sponsoring. Thanks to the many donors who have donated to these important projects. I also report on Canadian mining and sweatshop practices that are compromising the health of their communities of workers.)

‘The trouble with normal
is it always gets worse’
(Well known bard)