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?

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.

Rural communities and environmental activists in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador unite to create a new front of resistance against mining projects across the region.

Today was her birthday. Berta Cáceres would have turned 46 years old today, but instead of gathering to celebrate her birthday, people have been gathering to mark the anniversary of her death.

A new Global Witness report examines the involvement of government officials and foreign aid in violent conflicts over mining, hydroelectric, tourism, and palm oil projects in Honduras.

When I found out she had been killed, I was flooded with those earlier memories of her laughter – not that little sort of scoffing chuckle of hers, but the unbridled laughter that would fill the room.

Shot three times outside his home on Nov. 27, Garifuna land defense committee president Vidal Leiva survived and is now recovering from the gunshot wounds to his torso.

In her first interview since being sent back to Honduras, the teenage mother who cut her wrist in U.S. custody described a dramatic six days – in which, she said, she was taken from her young son, stripped naked in front of screaming staffers, put into isolation and then hidden at a hotel before a hasty deportation.

Garifuna community radio stations along the Caribbean coast of Honduras are facing harassment from National Telecommunications Commission officials.

Communities still reeling from the impacts of Goldcorp’s San Martin gold mine in the Siria Valley gathered at an open town hall meeting on April 18 to express their opposition to a tourism project that would cut off public access to key water sources.

Militarization, impunity, and human rights abuses have dominated Honduras since the 2009 coup.

While the Honduran government continues its promotion of mining investment, communities around the country are voting against mining in open town hall assemblies.

Canadian-owned tourism and residential development projects are displacing Garifuna communities in Honduras.

As Canadian investors gradually take over lands in Honduras’ Trujillo Bay for tourism and real estate projects, Afro-Indigenous Garifuna communities along this stretch of Caribbean coastline are being displaced.