Sandra Cuffe

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.