Activists from across Latin America and the world marched on Friday November 30 to reject the G20 Summit which brings together and celebrates the most powerful and divisive leaders of the world and their anti-people policies
After first round of convictions, victims continue their demand that the people and structures who financed the assassination be prosecuted and punished
The victims have denounced nationally and internationally the irregularities committed by the courts and the Attorney General in Honduras throughout this trial and last month their legal representation was even excluded from the proceedings
The trial has continued for the past 6 days without the presence of Berta Cáceres’ family and their legal team. The team had earlier challenged the credibility of the judges hearing the case
The migrant caravan, which has been met with threats from Donald Trump, is the result of poverty, growing crime and repression in Honduras. The US has played a key role in propping up the government of Juan Orlando Hernández, who was reelected in November through blatant electoral fraud.
COPINH and the victim’s legal team denounced that the appeals court has not resolved all of the petitions filed by the legal team, specifically the one requesting the disqualification of the judges hearing the case
The trial which was scheduled to start on September 17 has been postponed until the court resolves the petition presented by the family and COPINH’s legal team
Members of COPINH denounced the fact that the Honduran state prosecution has actively worked to prevent the victim’s legal team access to the evidence in the trial.
After a month of delays in the evidentiary hearings, the court denied the majority of the evidence presented by attorneys representing Cáceres’ family and COPINH
The Convergence Against Continuism proposed to hold a “people’s plebiscite” for Hondurans
Peoples Dispatch spoke with Francisco Sánchez of the Honduran indigenous organization COPINH about the hydroelectric project Agua Zarca, the resistance to the project and the impacts is his community Río Blanco.
The authorities and the judicial system have focused on prosecuting those immediately responsible as opposed to the institutions that were behind the assassination
