1. Will the World Bank Stop Investing in Campesino Assassinations?
(Matching tags: world bank, Honduras, Facusse)

On February 27, the office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched an audit of the lending arm’s $30 million investment in Tegucigalpa-based ...

2. Killings Continue in Bajo Aguán as New Report Documents Abuses by U.S.-Trained Honduran Special Forces Unit
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A few days ago two more land rights activists were murdered in the Bajo Aguán, a region of Honduras where dozens of campesinos have been killed over the last three years. On February 16, Jacobo Cartagena, ...

3. Miguel Facusse is Tragically Misunderstood
(Matching tags: human rights, Honduras, Facusse)

... rights organizations: In October, shortly before he lost reelection, U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village) took the unusual step of singling out Facusse in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary ...

4. State Department All a Twitter About Human Rights in Honduras
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The Obama administration has been outspoken recently about human rights, but some statements are somewhat disconnected from actual policy. Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough visited Honduras ...

5. Honduras’ Party Primaries: Voters Went to the Polls, But Can Next Year’s Elections be “Free and Fair”?
(Matching tags: coup, elections, media, Honduras, Facusse, ICC, LIBRE)

... against humanity committed by coup leaders Roberto Micheletti, General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, palm oil magnate Miguel Facusse, and others. (See our previous post here.) Honduras’ presidential elections ...

6. Honduras’ Violent “Hot Spots” Help Propel Homicides to a New Record High
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Several new op-eds and articles highlight problems with the U.S. government’s support for the post-coup government of Pepe Lobo in Honduras. New U.N. data reveals that the homicide rate in Honduras – already ...