Tag: CENTRAL AMERICA

Salvadoran Migrants Express Fear, Uncertainty Under New Trump Administration

March 17, 2017

Adela M. arrived in the United States less than a year ago to work to send money home to her family. Like many other Central American migrants, the fifty-year-old woman feels uncertainty, fear and anxiety over the results of the U.S. presidential elections in November.Adela M. arrived in the United States less than a year ago to work to send money home to her family. Economic conditions in El Salvador forced her to leave everything behind in her native country to seek a way out. Like many other Central American migrants, the fifty-year-old woman feels uncertainty, fear and anxiety over the results of the U.S. presidential elections in November.

A la cárcel expresidente de El Salvador por desvío de $246 millones

November 23, 2016

“A los malacates (ladrones) se les acabó al fiesta”. Con esta frase cientos de salvadoreños celebraban la detención del expresidente Elías Antonio Saca, quien gobernó al país centroamericano desde 2004 hasta el 2009, acusado de actos de corrupción y de desviar $246 millones de fondos de Estado a cuentas personales.

Six Months Without Berta; Six Months Without Justice

September 12, 2016

Six months after the murder of Berta Caceres, far from forgetting, people throughout the world demanded justice and vowed to continue her organizing work in defense of land and territory locally, regionally and internationally.

Death Squad Revelations and the New Police in Honduras

July 1, 2016

On June 21, 2015 the London-based Guardian newspaper published an article describing the testimony of a soldier who says he deserted the army after his unit was given an order to kill activists whose names appeared on two lists. The second list contained the name of Lenca indigenous leader Berta Caceres, murdered last March.

The Lethal Arms of the U.S. Drug War in Honduras

April 12, 2016

On December 28, 2015 in the early morning, the Honduran Navy shot and killed two Afro-Indigenous Garifuna men, Jostin Lino Palacios, age 24 and Elvis Garcia, age 19 in Barra de Iriona in the department of Colon, on the northeast coast of Honduras.

The Voice of Berta Cáceres

March 20, 2016

Berta Cáceres united sectors and issues, across borders. And by bringing paths together, she was building a broad road to freedom. That is the road she has left to her children, and to the many others who will follow in her footsteps.