...waiting for an update.

Mass grave found in Honduras with bodies of missing in the last three months

Berta Oliva, president of the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, has reported that a mass grave was discovered containing the bodies of more than 100 people who had been disappeared in the last three months.

Oliva accused the government repression of working in conjunction with organized crime.

Honduras, the Frente, and the OAS
Rodolfo Pastor de Maria y Campos (my translation)
Washington, DC
August 14, 2010

Following the sad spectacle of the most recent SICA summit, where a dangerous precedent was set by breaking the regional organization's own constitutional bylaws by calling for the readmission of Honduras to said organism, without consensus and ignoring the ongoing crisis in our country, certain things have come to light about the international panorama.

SERTUC Film Club International Screening:
Quien Dijo Miedo (18)
(108 mins) *English subtitles
Panel discussion featuring: René Guillermo Amador Padilla
Thursday 9 September 2010 (7.00 - 9.30pm)

Rights Action
HONDURAS: GOLDCORP INC. FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS & RELATED HEALTH HARMS, AS IT TRIES TO RE-OPEN ITS GOLD MINE IN HONDURAS
August 16, 2010

RIGHTS ACTION Commentary:
Over the past few years, Rights Action has supported and worked closely with the Siria Valley Environmental Defense Committee, reporting on a wide range of environmental and health harms, and other human rights violations, caused by Goldcorp Inc's "San Martin" open-pit, cyanide leaching mine.

Original at the FNRP's English-language website
Wednesday, August 18th
ALERT! Repression has increased in San Pedro Sula. There are thirty people arrested and gaoled in Choloma. A young girl NIÑA GEMA VALERIA ALIA MANZANARES is under detention in Las Bartolinas. People with broken bones and numerous injuries.

This morning comrade Ruy Diaz Diaz, member of the FNRP and a part of the elected assembly of this body, was abducted by the police and taken away to the Choloma Police Station, where he was brutally beaten by a police officer with the surname “Castro”.

Ricardo Álvarez, mayor of Tegucigalpa, president of the National Party and possible next president of Honduras is playing dirty games with trash.

COFADEH: Systemic State Sponsored Human Rights Violation in Honduras
Sábado 14 de Agosto de 2010 02:48
RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN

The Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), reported today that there is state sponsored human rightsviolations in Honduras.

The statement issued by COFADEH is as follows:

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