Murder in Honduras: US-Trained ‘Death Squads’ & the Environmentalist
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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
It can be dangerous to be an activist for the environment or even for human rights: particularly in a country where foreign-trained Death Squads are working directly for the corporations whose interests you’re interfering with.
I covered the murder Honduran activist Beta Caceres here in 2016.
I covered the Honduras coup in that article too: and revisited it recently again here in relation to the current Migrant Caravan from Honduras to the US/Mexico border.
The short recap is that the US State Department in 2009 provided cover for a right-wing military coup in Honduras that overthrew the elected government and has been in power ever since: engaging in mass suppression, state violence and general dictatorship.
As noted previously, in addition to the ...