Honduran Dictatorship Burns Community to the Ground

This video from Honduras says about itself:

30 July 2011

Homes, churches, schools, and crops all destroyed as the post-coup government continues to side with wealthy plantation owners over the country‘s organized farmers.

Honduras: Wealthy Landowners Attempt to Quash Farming Collectives. Andrew Kennis, Truthout: “While 2011 has been a year filled with killings of activist farmers in the conflict-ridden region, August was an exceptionally violent month during what has been an exceptionally violent year…. Why is this violence occurring? What is the root of the conflict? Is the depiction of the situation in Aguan given by the Honduran government – only recently recognized internationally by the Organization of American States – an accurate reflection of what is going on? Bajo Aguan campesinos, as well as researchers and activists who have been visiting the region for decades worth of collective time, provided Truthout first-hand testimony in an effort to shed light on an otherwise largely overlooked, underreported and ongoing human and land rights catastrophe”: here.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: The announcement by Honduras President Porfirio Lobo, that his country will next month vote at the UN in favor of Palestinian independence, aroused angry reactions at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. Israeli officials expressed surprise and disappointment at Lobo`s “ingratitude”, evoking the “close relations” between the Israeli Army and its Honduran counterpart. This was, in effect, an oblique half-admission of Israeli involvement in the 2009 coup that toppled Lobo`s left-leaning predecessor – an involvement hotly denied at the time: here.

TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 30, 2012 (IPS) – Last Friday marked two years since the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo as president of Honduras, amidst accusations of corruption, an unprecedented crime wave, and his lowest approval rating yet: here.

The Drug-War Femicides. Pastili Toledo, Project Syndicate: “The number of women murdered is increasing in most of Central America and Mexico. In some countries, such as Honduras, the increase is four times that of men. Moreover, many of these murders are committed with extreme violence – sexual savagery, torture, and mutilations – by perpetrators (often involved in organized crime) acting with a high degree of impunity… In Latin America, all of these crimes are known as ‘femicides’: murders of women precisely for being women”: here.

Honduras Prison Fire: Most Inmates In Deadly Blaze Were Not Convicted, Report Says: here.