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The Threat of Progress: Visiting Garifuna Country in Honduras
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

The Threat of Progress: Visiting Garifuna Country in Honduras

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.

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Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

"Close the sweatshops or we close the hospitals"

There is nothing easy about Covid-19. Mixing this global pandemic with US and Canadian support for a military-backed, corrupt, ‘open-for-global-business’ regime does NOT work out well for the majority in Honduras.

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