It could be your morning coffee, your bananas, your sugar, or the palm oil found in approximately half of all packaged products at your grocery store, including breakfast cereals. Land and environmental defenders were killed in record numbers last year, and for the first time, agribusiness is tied to more killings than any other sector, according to a new report.

El proyecto hidroeléctrico Jilamito en el municipio de Arizona, departamento de Atlántida en Honduras, ha contado con una fuerte oposición. El asesinato del abogado Carlos Hernández y las presiones judiciales contra el alcalde Arnaldo Chacón y cuatro personas más preocupan en el país centroamericano.

Honduran officials are on trial for failing to consult Indigenous communities before authorizing the Agua Zarca dam, linked to Berta Cáceres murder. They are the first criminal trials of their kind in Honduras.

Hoy se cumple un año desde el asesinato de Carlos Maaz, un pescador Q’eqchi’ de 27 años de edad. La policía lo mató el 27 de mayo del 2017 en medio del violento desalojo de una protesta en El Estor, Izabal. A pesar de la criminalización de líderes de la Gremial de Pescadores Artesanales y periodistas, siguen exigiendo justicia.

One year after police shot and killed indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' fisherman Carlos Maaz during the eviction of a protest against mining pollution in Guatemala, no one has been brought to justice, but indigenous fishers' union leaders and local journalists face ongoing criminalization and threats.

State violence against community resistance to natural resource exploitation projects continues unabated in Honduras. The recent crackdown in Pajuiles to impose a fiercely contested hydroelectric dam project is just one of the latest incidents, but it provides a clear example of the involvement of US-trained and -supported special forces in repression against community activists.

Hasta la fecha son nueve personas que esperan desde la cárcel su juicio por el asesinato de Berta Cáceres. La mayoría tiene nexos o con la empresa o con las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras.

Trained in Honduras and in the United States by Green Berets from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), the TIGRES receive substantial support from the U.S. State Department. And they have been active participants in government repression during the current political crisis in Honduras.

Around the country, Hondurans are demanding justice for the protesters and bystanders killed in the ongoing crackdown on opposition protests by the US-backed government of Honduras. Two months after general elections were marred by widespread reports of fraud, and one month after the US government stood by the contested results, repression and militarization continue unabated.

Nighttime road blockades have been springing up in neighborhoods around the Honduran capital as opposition alliance supporters continue to protest against election fraud.

Amid the ongoing electoral crisis in Honduras, rank-and-file police officers engaged in a brief work stoppage and claimed they would not crack down on protests. What's the backstory? And have they kept their word?

As Nicaragua's government doubles down on transnational gold extraction, the stage is set for grassroots resistance.

The crisis in Honduras is escalating. More than two weeks after general elections, the country is still without a president-elect. Nationwide marches, highway blockades, and neighborhood and community rallies continue to pop up around the country. As evidence of electoral fraud mounts, so does attention to the US role in the crisis.

In Honduras, coastal communities are embracing native plants as a means to mitigate climate impacts.

The clouds of tear gas began to dissipate, and the crisp sounds of gunshots punctuating the chaos halted. Someone was lying in the middle of the road.

La Gremial de Pescadores Artesanales de El Estor realizará una marcha pacífica el día 7 de julio en el pueblo de El Estor en Izabal. Invitan a la población a sumarse para elevar una vez más sus denuncias sobre la contaminación del Lago Izabal y las actividades mineras sin consulta, y para exigir justicia por el asesinato de Carlos Maaz Coc.

El 22 de junio en Guatemala, llegaron más que 200 agentes de la policía y fuerzas especiales a Casillas para reprimir a la manifestación pacífica contra la minería, relatan vecinos.

Almorzó en casa. Carlos Maaz Coc pasó la mañana del sábado en una reunión de los pescadores de El Estor, pero regresó a casa para almorzar antes de salir a la manifestación pacífica, dijo su esposa, Cristina Xol Pop. Unas dos horas después, su esposo, un pescador maya q’eqchi de 27 años de edad, estaba muerto.

Cientos de vecinos de El Estor acompañaron ayer al entierro de Carlos Maaz Coc, el pescador asesinado el sábado en medio de la represión policial. Ese mismo día, el gobierno declaró que "se determinó que no hay persona fallecida".

Empresarios, líderes comunitarios, y otros habitantes de Río Dulce se están uniendo para respaldar a los pescadores artesanales de El Estor, y para denunciar los impactos que sufren a causa de las actividades mineras.