Another indigenous activist has been murdered in Honduras amid an escalating wave of repression against the relatives and colleagues of renowned campaigner Berta Cáceres, who was murdered less than two weeks ago. Nelson García, 38, an active member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (Copinh) was killed on Tuesday after […]
A Honduras judge has sentenced television host and ex-legislator David Romero Ellner to 10 years in prison for defamation of the wife of a prosecutor. David Romero Ellner is the director of Radio Globo and Globo TV. His sentence was for defaming Sonia Inez Galvez Ferrari, the wife of prosecutor Rigoberto Cuellar. Romero Ellner will […]
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores, was in her early 20s when she co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (Cophin), a group that campaigned for the rights of indigenous communities in the South American nation. Influenced by a mother, who took in fleeing El Salvadorian refugees, Cáceres was fully committed to her cause. […]
In order to strengthen the agricultural exports chain, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) organized a workshop given by Chilean experts on how to improve the phytosanitary measures of the products shipped abroad. The workshop also aims at improving the Food Safety Assurance System. This week, the authorities of the SAG and the Federation […]
The deputy warden of Honduras’ main prison was shot dead Friday in an ambush on his car, police said. Juan Andres Sanchez, who helped run the Marco Aurelio penitentiary to the north of the capital Tegucigalpa, was shot and killed just outside the city. Honduras, along with neighboring El Salvador and Guatemala, has one of […]