Embattled by Conflict in the Bajo Aguan Region of Honduras, Corporacion Dinant has recruited a professional social worker to be based within the local communities of the Aguan near the company’s African Palm plantations and extraction mill. The appointment is part of Dinant’s program of regional Community Grievance Mechanisms, designed in collaboration with local people to […]
Consuelo Castillo | Bajo Aguan, Honduras My name is Consuelo Castillo and I have been fighting to defend the land for five years. Our goal is for everyone who is part of the land occupations to have access to land. Land, well, it’s our first mother. For us farmers, we don’t have life without land. […]
Four members of the Unified Peasant Movement of the Lower Aguan were killed and eleven injured after being ambushed by unidentified criminals last night, group leaders reported. “We have not managed to recover the bodies, and are trying to understand what happened,” said Juan Chinchilla, Vice President of the movement. Chinchilla continued, “The men left […]
Today, landowners, farmers, and the executive branch of the Government of Honduras signed an agreement on the purchase and sale of land in the Aguán area, disputed for some time in northern Honduras. The event was broadcast on national radio and television networks. President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and the Director of the National Agrarian Institute […]
A Wiki cable implies Miguel Facussé Barjam is involved with Narco trafficking activity in the Valley of Aguán. Diplomats from the United States of America suspected in 2004 that the Honduran businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum may have been involved in three incidents related to drugs on one of his properties, according to a secret cable […]