“Honduran Paradise”
Cayos Cochinos – Honduras – “tenemos algo muy especial aquí”. His simple words capturing it perfectly as “we have something very special here”
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Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Expert Visits Honduras
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, is carrying out her first official visit to Honduras. She arrived in the country yesterday, November 2nd, and will be staying through Tuesday, November 10th. She is here to study the situation of indigenous peoples in the country. “During my mission, I […]
Council of Ministers Meet on Garifuna’s 215th Anniversary in Honduras
The Honduran Council of Ministers was held yesterday under a large tent at the edge of the beach in the municipality of Santa Fe, in the Caribbean Department of Colón. Hundreds of people of African descent, diplomats, and visitors invited from Belize, El Salvador, the United States of America, and Equatorial Guinea, acknowledged that on […]
Aurelio Martinez to Play Carnegie Hall
Aurelio Martinez, the singer, composer, and guitarist from Honduras will be playing Carnegie Hall this Saturday, October 15th, 2011. Mr. Martinez is one of the leading Garifuna musicians of his generation, known for both his preservation and modernization of this musical tradition. Following in the footsteps of the older legendary paranderos, he has become the […]
Non-Profit Video Shot in Honduras
Karen Lustgarten just returned from a video shoot in Honduras to produce a mini-documentary for CHIMES (California – Honduran Institute for Medical & Educational Support), a humanitarian nonprofit organization that arranges all-volunteer medical missions to isolated Garifuna people living the Ciriboya, a remote northern village. Lustgarten wrote a script about the NGO for the video […]