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  1. Another journalist murdered a month before general elections
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The bullet-riddled body of Manuel Murillo Varela, a young freelance cameraman, was found in Tegucigalpa yesterday, exactly four months after journalist Anibal Barrow’s abduction and murder.
  2. Another journalist murdered in Honduras, no end to violence in sight
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that community radio journalist Hernán Cruz Barnica was murdered near Dulce Nombre, a town in the western department of Copán, on the evening of 28 May.
  3. Another journalist slain, special mechanism for protecting journalists announced
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    JoseNoel Canales Lagos, a 34-year-old journalist who had worked for the Hondudiario news website for the past 12 years, was gunned down in the capital on 10 August, bringing the number of journalists killed in the past decade to 30.
  4. Asesinato de dos periodistas en Guatemala y Honduras. La FEPALC y la FIP expresan su total consternacion
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    La FederaciA#n Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) y la FederaciA#n de Periodistas de AmA#rica Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) expresan su consternaciA#n absoluta ante el asesinato, en menos de 48 horas de dos periodistas centroamericanos.
  5. The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
  6. Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
  7. Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
  8. Call for demonstration in Paris on third anniversary of coup
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Defending human rights and exercising the right to impart or receive news and information can get you killed nowadays in Honduras. The favourite targets include NGO and union representatives, civil society activists
  9. Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
  10. Caribbean Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    Organizations and experts on Caribbean topics.
  11. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  12. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  13. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  14. Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
  15. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
  16. Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
  17. Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2016
    Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
  18. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  19. Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
  20. Focus on Honduran crisis, Haiti and more in the July-August issue of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Honduras, Haiti and Central America among others on themes such as democracy, energy, trade and multilateralism.
  21. Honduran political murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
  22. Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
    Step by Step

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
  23. Honduras Bleeding
    The Coup and Its Aftermath

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
  24. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
  25. Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coup
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
  26. Honduras: Rule of law and civil liberties founder in year since coup
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Joint statement on the first anniversary of the 28 June 2009 coup d#état in Honduras.
  27. Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
  28. Honduras: Joint appeal for end to persecution of community and opposition media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters for Latin America and Caribbean and Reporters Without Borders appeal again for an end to the hostility toward community and opposition media in Honduras.
  29. How many more
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
  30. IFJ and FEPALC Condemn Attacks against Media and Journalists in Honduras
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The IFJ and FEPALC have today strongly condemned attacks on journalists and the closure of media in Honduras.
  31. IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
  32. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  33. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
  34. OAS Secretary-General to Address Canada's Engagement in Honduras at FOCAL Roundtable
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    JosA# Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) will discuss what happened in Honduras, the role that Canada has played and implications for democracy in Latin America at the University of Ottawa today at 2:00 pm.
  35. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
    Forests and trees

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
  36. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  37. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  38. PEN Honduras appeals to Supreme Court in final attempt to halt ban on practising journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Journalist and founding member of PEN Honduras, Julio Ernesto Alvarado, is appearing along with other journalists and PEN Honduras members before the Constitutional Section of the Supreme Court of the country in a final attempt to fight the reinstatement of a 16-month ban on practising journalism.
  39. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  40. Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
  41. Rogue State
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  42. RWB Americas correspondents voice support for colleague Dina Meza, still threatened in Honduras
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders’ correspondents in the Americas have written to the Honduran authorities urging them to finally provide protection to RWB's correspondent in Honduras, journalist and human rights defender Dina Meza
  43. "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
  44. They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
  45. When media bosses censor their own journalists
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the censorship of Suelte la lengua (Talk freely), a programme that Canal 6 TV has not broadcast since 15 May without any explanation from its CEO, Paul Misselem.


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