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By Roverto Barra <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Civic Council of Popular and
Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), two years after the March 2<sup>nd</sup>
assassination of Berta Cáceres, the indigenous environmentalist revolutionary
leader of COPINH, we share a text to remember the history of this organization
which, alongside other organizations, helped revolutionize the contemporary
social movement in Honduras.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The beginning of the 1990s was characterized
by the decline of the revolutionary struggles in the Central American region.
This decline did not only mean a change in the political situation of the
region, with the incorporation of guerrilla forces into legal electoral
parties, but also implied the opening of local economies to transnational
capital investment in strategic areas, taking advantage of the neoliberal
privatization of state and natural resources.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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For the people’s movements, the demoralization due to the loss of political
and ideological leaders following the fall of the Nicaraguan revolution and the
Eastern European Socialist Bloc meant that coordination and united work were
even harder to achieve. At the same time, there was a strong wave of NGOization
of the models of organization and social struggle, which furthered the
fragmentation of social struggles. The various neoliberal governments in
Central America adeptly took advantage of this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Honduras, the recipe was neoliberal but based on a “model of
continuous occupation” that assured that from the 1980s and on, state resources
were plundered while sovereignty was consistently handed over to the North
American empire in exchange for power and impunity for the national elite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Resurgence of the Lenca
people<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In this regional and national context, Honduran society began to suffer
anti-people attacks with Decree 18/90, which sought to codify into law the
structural changes in the economy and to dismantle public enterprises and
privatize state resources. Thus, the neoliberal government of Rafael Callejas
[1] vigorously implemented [2] a heavy persecution of labor leaders and a
progressive dismantling of the social and agrarian policies that had benefited
the poorest segment of the population. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1992 and 1993, the Honduran indigenous peasantry did not even (and
still do not) enter into official statistics. As such, the new neoliberal
agrarian policies did not even consider measures that would respond to the
severe crisis in the countryside; instead, it was just the opposite. In just
three years, more than 50% of the lands allotted in the Agrarian Reform process
of 1964 had gone back into private hands. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Without political or social counterweights, the Callejas government
created an ambitious structural adjustment plan (with the support of the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United States Agency for
International Development - USAID), where the best peasant lands and indigenous
people’s territories were at the center of the economic transformation of the
country. The communal lands in the West of Honduras, historically forgotten but
rich in forests and natural resources became territories under dispute between large
national capital allied with transnationals on one hand, and the rural
communities and organized Lenca people on the other.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hope was born in La Esperanza<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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After the end of the war in El Salvador, with the concentration of the
Honduran military battalions in the Western region, especially along the
border, many revolutionary Honduran internationalists began their return to
Honduras with the intention of supporting the social struggle in the country.
This fostered, after various attempts and a slow but steady organizing process,
an alliance between indigenous Lenca leaders and revolutionary ex-combatants,
with the goal of working around the historical demands of the Lenca indigenous
communities and the grassroots organizations of western Honduras.<o:p></o:p></div>
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COPINH was born in La Esperanza in the state of Intibucá in Honduras,
on March 27, 1993 as a fruit of these efforts. Its objective was to “improve
the living conditions of the Lenca people of Honduras and to help fight in our
country, in Central America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the world, to
implement a model of development that is more just, more dignified for human beings
and in harmony with the environment” [3].<o:p></o:p></div>
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The necessity of COPINH’s creation is clear from the number and
relevance of the actions carried out in its first years. Soon after its inception,
the organization was able to stop an industrial logger in the state of
Intibucá. At least 16 logging projects were cancelled because COPINH’s actions and
mobilizations. In July 1994, tens of thousands of indigenous Lenca people came
down from the North Yamaranguila mountains and from the state of Lempira to
join the first and historic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Indigenous
and Black Pilgrimage for Life, for Justice and for Liberty</i>. This
mobilization did not only show the urgency of the demands of the indigenous and
black people of Honduras, but also marked a watershed moment for the
organization and the struggle of the people’s movements in Honduras,
resurrecting the marginalized who despite impoverishment and exclusion, raised
their voice and assumed protagonism in Honduras and Central America.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their demands and their victory were astounding. The Lenca people
achieved legal recognition of the first two indigenous municipalities in the
country: San Francisco de Opalaca (Intibucá) and San Marcos de Caiquin
(Lempira). With that came the signing of more than 50 agreements between COPINH
and the Liberal Government of Carlos Roberto Reyna. Amongst said agreements
were the creation of schools, opening of highways, health centers, etc, in
addition to the promise to review ILO Convention 169, which protects and
guarantees the rights of indigenous peoples. Honduras ratified that convention
on March 28, 1995.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Honduran society since 1994 has been engaged in heavy struggle for
national demilitarization. It is important to remember that the country has suffered
from a dominant military presence in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>all
areas of life. The model of “Continuous Occupation” implied not only permanent U.S.
military bases in the country, but also the omnipresence of Honduran soldiers
in the operations of state institutions considered key to its security
(Migration, Customs, Telecommunications, Civil Registry, etc.).<o:p></o:p></div>
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In October of this same year, COPINH, indigenous women, students, along
with the black Garífuna community, peasants, and Christian communities -
mobilized around 20,000 people to the capital to demand, amongst other things,
the repeal of obligatory military service, the end of the North American
occupation, and the demilitarization of the country. These and other
mobilizations led to a repeal of the Military Service Law and the withdrawal of
soldiers from state institutions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Solidarity as the essence of
struggle and camaraderie by the people<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The indigenous Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas and the demands for
peace in Guatemala internationalized the struggles of COPINH. In April 1995, a
mobilization was organized to the Honduran capital, which, amongst other
things, expressed solidarity with the indigenous people and their armed
uprising in the state of Chiapas, México, and demanded an end to repression of
the indigenous people in Guatemala. This new organizational push was in line
with the original objectives of COPINH, and, in essence, responded to a
necessity of reciprocal camaraderie in the face of the imperial capitalist
threat, which meant the amplification of domination and plundering in Latin
America through the imposition of the neoliberal model.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For COPINH, solidarity with all the social struggles of Honduras, Latin
America and the world become fundamental, part of their belief that any people’s
struggle is also a struggle of the Lenca people and their organization. This is
reflected in the attempt to coordinate with organizations of workers, peasants
and indigenous people in Honduras and other parts of the continent to build a
mass platform for struggle against the serious threat from the United States through
its imposition of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).<o:p></o:p></div>
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This strategic vision to constantly advocate unity, coordination and
solidarity amongst people’s struggles made it possible for the workers,
peasants and indigenous peoples of Honduras to create common spaces of struggle
in the face of these threats and the serious economic crisis that affected
them. It is important to remember that in 1998 Hurricane Mitch severely hit the
community-based economy. The loss of productive infrastructure and of harvests
of basic grains and coffee [4] meant that many producers were ruined, creating an
opportunity for the government of Carlos Flores Facussé to impose, consistent with
neoliberal logic, a Master Plan of Reconstruction and National Transformation
(PMRTN). This plan prioritized the expansion of structural adjustment policies
and the reduction of state benefits, labor and social rights, all to favor
investment and loans for big business owners.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The threat of unemployment, salary freezes and the loss of benefits for
public sector workers brought labor federations such as FUTH and FECESITLIH and
other working class sectors together to create the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloque Popular</i> (People’s Block) in 2000. This was the first attempt
to coordinate workers and other dispossessed sectors after the grave
organizational crisis of the nineties, permitting the organizations that were
fighting to defeat the neoliberal model in the country to come together. These were
the first steps towards an alignment of COPINH and the organized workers’
movement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2001, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plan Puebla Panamá </i>(PPP),
which later came to be known as the Mesoamerica Integration and Development
Project, was proposed. This was an enormous infrastructure project that would
facilitate the pillaging and exploitation of natural resources to favor big
business. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This provoked a response from workers, community, peasant, indigenous
and urban organizations, who came together to struggle against the plan. COPINH
immediately joined in the work of coordinating spaces for debate and
organization via the Mesoamerican People’s Forum, which formed in opposition to
this plan. The struggles of the sectors most affected by the implementation of
neoliberal policies were also included in these efforts, as was the case with
the education workers with whom COPINH was especially close. The teaching
sector was the worst affected during the government of Ricardo Maduro, and it
was COPINH that would march and support their assemblies and highway occupations
in different parts of the western region.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With the convergence of agrarian crisis, teachers’ resistance, and struggle
against the FTAA and PPP, worker, indigenous and black resistance gained
momentum. In 2003, with the visionary and strategic leadership of different
national leaders including COPINH, these forces all come together under a
common platorm through the formation of the National Coordinator of People’s
Resistance – CNRP [4] in 2003, marking a unique and historic moment of unity in
the Honduran people’s movements. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of the organizations agreed on and supported the proposal of
“rotating coordination,” prioritizing the protagonism of the various regions of
the country. It was also agreed upon to deliberate in assembly and spaces of
dialogue to plan local and national actions in order to reach consensus before making
decisions. The first relevant action came in August 2003 with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">March of Dignity</i>, when thousands of
people from across the country gathered in Tegucigalpa to demand the end of
repression of teachers and an end to the neoliberal policies of the government
of Ricardo Maduro.<o:p></o:p></div>
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COPINH’s contribution to different moments of unity and coordination on
national and regional levels was evident. On the national level, it contributed
by promoting new forms of coordination like the CNRP, which prioritized
dialogue over imposition and consensus-based democracy. It was a big advance
for the Honduran people’s movements as it enabled them to create links of
solidarity between diverse actors, with respect for a diversity of visions,
opinions and forms of struggle. The contribution of COPINH to the national
struggles led to recognition of the role of the indigenous people in the
construction of a new society. The indigenous people began to be respected and
recognized as fundamental actors for change. The ability of COPINH to mobilize
showed that the Lenca people were already fundamental actors envisioning and
struggling for change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The struggle for women’s liberation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In the midst
of these fights for rights on a national level, the women of COPINH begin a
long journey of rising up and fighting for their rights. One of the first
important struggles was the awareness brought to discrimination and violence
within the organization. Several abusers of women were kicked out of the
organization, thanks to the courage and tireless struggle of leaders like Doña
Pascualita and Berta Cáceres. It was no easy feat to launch, for example, the
first COPINH Women’s Assembly. At the time people thought that it would divide
the organization. Instead, the opposite happened. It resulted in the
institutionalization of the statutes of the organization.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Berta it
was not possible to advance in the anti-patriarchal and anti-racist struggle without
fighting against violence against women in all of its forms within the
organization itself. They worked for the permanent incorporation of women in
the structures of the organization, as well as engaging female comrades in
political education in all areas of the struggle so that they would be part of all
of COPINH’s organizational and community work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Berta said
that “the anti-patriarchal struggle is a vision that is expressed in all areas
of COPINH’s work from its inception. (...) This anti-patriarchal idea
intersects with all the areas of organization because we want the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">machista </i>culture to be changed, we want
to achieve equal rights and have participation in and to benefit from the
organization. Considering that we as women are different people and with
different stories but not with unequal rights, and with this struggle we defend
the valuing of women’s decisions and thoughts in the family, in the economy, in
politics, and in the organizational development of the country and the world.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Berta the
protection of women and children who were victims of violence was also a
permanent need. Her dream was to have a safe space for female comrades who were
abused or attacked. Years later this dream began to take shape with the
proposal to build a Refuge House for Women. In 2015 the house was finally
inaugurated, the House of Healing and Justice of the Women of COPINH. There
were many other struggles and efforts as well. For example, COPINH promoted the
Women’s Courts, a space to denounce violence and share resistance strategies,
alongside other women’s organizations. There were also gathering spaces amongst
indigenous women.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Accompanied
by Berta Cáceres, the women of COPINH brought forth important struggles for the
defense of the land. An important example was the resistance of the women in
the community of San Antonio to stop the El Tigre dam, along the Lempa River on
the border with El Salvador. Thousands of women, along with Berta and COPINH,
marched innumerable times between 2006 and 2007 through the community with
their faces covered and machetes in hand, carrying their children and demanding
the end of the hydroelectric project, which was later suspended.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">United People’s Struggles and National Re-foundation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In 2006
Manuel Zelaya was elected President of Honduras. His relationship with people’s
organizations had never been good, and this changed only after the last Civic
Strike in 2008 organized by the CNRP. In these years there was a clear shift of
the government towards the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the
People of Our America - ALBA.<o:p></o:p></div>
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COPINH,
which always had good communication with representatives of Venezuela and Cuba,
was able to recognize the importance of the changing position of the Honduran government
and the urgency to support the brave position of the Zelaya government in this
new political context, as it began to confront the powerful elite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this
process of reconciliation of the people’s movements through the CNRP they
proposed the “independent people’s platform candidates” with Carlos H. Reyes,
workers representative; Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader; Maribel Hernández, a
teachers’ union leader, and Carlos Amaya, member and leader of the Honduran
left. With a program based on 12 points [5] created by the agreements that were
reached in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Encounter of the
Workers, Peasants, Teachers, Communal and People’s Organizations</i> in 2008. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The election
of Berta as a candidate not only showed the political maturity of the movement,
but also the recognition of her as an indigenous leader and of the leadership of
COPINH itself. It was through this process of more profound reconciliation that
the organization organized the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Encounter
for the Re-founding of Honduras</i>, in La Esperanza.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From there
they tried to put forth a true Constitutional Assembly, to empower the people
and re-found the country with a new indigenous Constitution, for the people. In
this context of struggle for change the 2009 coup d’etat takes place. On the
date of the elections, the slate of candidates (in a gesture of revolutionary integrity)
withdraws and calls for resistance and struggle in the streets against the
dictatorship.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The coup and the struggle of COPINH<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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COPINH was
accompanying the initiative of the government to consult the people, which is
why it was dramatically affected by the military repression. However, it
understood from the first moment that the struggle would be waged essentially
in the capital. Thousands of members of COPINH went to Tegucigalpa where, in
addition to mobilizing and accompanying the struggle for more than six months,
they constituted a unit that was sent to defend and protect the perimeter of
the Venezuelan Embassy for more than three months.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reconstituted people’s power and the
community-based struggle <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Once the government
of Porfirio Lobo was elected, COPINH multiplied its efforts of solidarity to
accompany the struggle of the peasants of Aguán, who were being massacred for
demanding respect for their right to land.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was
also a rupture within the recently created National Front of People’s
Resistance -FNRP. This rupture came from the polarization of the positions
between those who supported the focus on electoral politics and those who
called for the overthrow of the dictatorship through the people’s insurrection.
The electoral line was defended by those close to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloque Popular</i> and the political cohort<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>of Manuel Zelaya; and the line of insurrection supported by
so-called “re-foundationists”, was led by COPINH, organizations of the left and
organizations with territorial struggles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The division
in the people’s movements already existed, as did the deepening electoral
contradictions. The electoral fraud of 2013 brought to light the differences
and the ruptures between social leaders who advocated the electoral line, with the
re-foundationist line being led by Berta and Miriam Miranda (from the Fraternal
Black Organization of Honduras). Both leaders encouraged a new dynamic of
struggle based in the territories, from the communities and for the defense of
the common goods of nature, in response to the onslaught of extractivism from
the Lobo government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The struggle
for land and territory became one of the principal necessities of the “re-foundationist”
organizations. In 2013 the Platform of Social and People’s Movements of
Honduras is created and Berta and Miriam are the leaders that organize and lead
it. It is in the context of the struggle for the defense of the territory that
the government unleash a witch hunt criminalizing social movement leaders. The
struggle for Río Blanco and the Gualcarque River led to the subsequent
assassination of Berta in 2016, one death amongst many others who gave their lives
in various communities defending nature’s common good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this
stage, despite having been severely attacked by State and corporate repression,
COPINH continues a fierce struggle against the hundreds of extractive projects
that threaten Lenca communities and territories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the
current challenge of COPINH: to sustain the struggle. This is why it is
rebuilding its power from the indigenous communities and from its historical
struggle and resistance. This struggle is not only for COPINH but for all
struggles, in any part of the world. As Berta said, for mother nature, for
humanity, because time is running out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Notes:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1-</b> Currently being prosecuted in the
United States for the infamous Fifagate case, where bribery and corruption was
discovered on the inside of the International Football Federation -FIFA-.
Before this, Callejas was prosecuted in Honduras for different crimes of
corruption.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2-</b> Labor reforms and trade union action
in Central America;
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/fesamcentral/07612.pdf :<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3-</b> Constitutive document of the Civic
Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.<o:p></o:p></div>
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hundreds of thousands of poor families who depend on their small harvests for a
basic annual income. Small producers are exploited by the export companies and
intermediaries who set miserable prices when buying their harvests. In 1999 the
price of coffee collapsed in the international markets, which meant one of the
worst disasters for the local community-based economy in the country. The Lenca
area in the West of Honduras is one of the regions with greatest coffee production.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-41114010648996938052018-03-02T12:01:00.003-08:002018-03-02T12:01:55.376-08:00BREAKING: President of DESA arrested for involvement in Assassination of Berta Cáceres<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15.84px;"><strong>BREAKING NEWS: David Castillo Mejia, the President of DESA, the corporation building the dam Berta was organizing against when she was assassinated, has just been arrested while attempting to flee Honduras</strong></span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15.84px;"><em><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2018/03/la-posicion-del-copinh-ante-la-captura.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">[Original en espa<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ñol]<o:p></o:p></span></a></em><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15.84px;">COPINH reports to the national and international community that moments ago David Castillo, the President of the DESA corporation and the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, was arrested thanks to all of the work and pressure created by the solidarity and work of organizations nationally and internationally. No thanks is due to the Attorney General's office, who have tried everything possible to cover up the truth in this case.</span><br />
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It will soon
have been two years since the crime against our sister Berta Cáceres Flores,
bringing up again the memory of that horrible incident that was a blow to our
organization, people, country and all of humanity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Honduran state seeks to break the
unstoppable struggle for justice with the capture of the immediate perpetrators
and their intermediaries, but without going after the business structures and
state officials who pursued, criminalized, persecuted and assassinated our
sisters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="IT">It is the same structure that keeps the
elite in power in Honduras and continues repressing our people and imposing
itself through force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT"> COPINH
calls on those in solidarity around the world to use this day to symbolically
reject the imposition of violent death upon those who defend life. For Berta
and for the hundreds of social fighters assassinated in Honduras and around the
world we demand justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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call for protests, letters and actions in front of the Honduran embassies
around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="IT"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> 2
years after the crime: We don’t forget and we don’t forgive.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="IT"> </span>Berta Cáceres is the seed
of freedom!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Capture the
masterminds NOW!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">March 2nd,
another day of resistance!</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-77497798155547705042018-02-02T03:47:00.001-08:002018-02-02T03:50:51.846-08:00Two years after the assassination of the woman who dreamed of re-founding Honduras<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Today marks 23 months since the assassination of
indigenous leader Berta Cáceres and we are about to reach the second
anniversary of her transition. We remember this sister on these days, with many
people eager to know how far the case has progressed over these two years and
what has changed in Honduras with the revelation of manifold human rights
violations by extractive corporations who profit off of energy production. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As of now, COPINH continues to struggle for true
justice and to push, as a first step, to break the media silence around her
case and confront the irregularities that permeate the process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">May of this year will bring the expiration of the
preventative detention* for the eight people detained in 2016, including the
direct perpetrators of the crime as well as intermediaries such as DESA
employee Sergio Rodríguez and armed forces major Mariano Díaz who coordinated
the assassination and served as an instructor for the military police. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At this point the Honduran Attorney General and
judicial authorities are flailing around desperately to try to move through and
put a close to the case by sentencing only those who they have detained. The
final arguments are expected in the case halfway through this year.
Notwithstanding, the organization, the Honduran people and the international
community remain unsatisfied in the face of a lack of action to capture the
masterminds who are linked to the powerful and untouchable Honduran oligarchy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is worth mentioning that today is the swearing-in
hearing for the specialists proposed by the Attorney General to analyze the
telephone recordings and financial information in the national sentencing
tribunal, which will decide the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Regarding the second point about what has changed in
Honduras since her death, very little can be said. The concession remains for the
hydroelectric damn ferociously defended not only by private enterprise but also
by the renewable energy producers who continue to sew hate against the
organizations that challenge the installation of numerous deadly projects,
ruining their lucrative business.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The government wants to secure the investments of
national and international corporations in this business by approving a
deceitful law supposedly about “prior, free and informed consent for indigenous
peoples” but has been unable to take the final step after strong questioning at
a national and international level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The power structures that protect the deadly project
against which Berta Cáceres fought have strengthened themselves with electoral
fraud, carried out to ensure continuation of the status quo and protection of
private economic interests.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What Berta Cáceres contributed to today’s Honduras is
the national uprising that continues without giving up on the same vision that
would be on at the front of Berta Cáceres’s mind: the re-foundation of Honduras
that no president will be able to carry out, that can only be carried out by
the people, the same people who didn’t give up in the streets even as they
confronted the violence of the military and their killer weapons, which is the
only path to profound change for Honduras. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bitstream charter" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the meantime COPINH is convening the “25 years of
Life and Justice Gathering” for this 22<sup>nd</sup>-24<sup>th</sup> of March
to deepen work around the case of comrades Berta and Gustavo and talk about the
struggle to this point and what the future holds for Berta’s vision in a
country that needs it now more than ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for six more moths, which would expire in November of this year.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-80060949917848325652018-01-29T12:18:00.002-08:002018-01-29T12:18:21.417-08:00Invitation to 2nd anniversary of Berta’s transition and XXV anniversary of COPINH: 25 Years in Struggle for Life and Justice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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25 years ago in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras, the Civil
Council of Grassroots Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) was founded
as an organization to defend the territorial rights of the Lenca people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was born in the midst of a bloody era at the beginning of
the free trade agreements and the outright concession of territories, which
gave rise to the beginning of struggles to reclaim Honduras and Latin America.
In that moment of crisis and historic change COPINH made a seed of rebellion
grow in indigenous towns and communities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At present, our organization of many communities has
traversed a tremendous path of learning and resistance in the face of systems
of domination that sustain the plunder of our territories and the exploitation
of their populations. These have been years of great repression, hard struggles,
starting from zero, but without a doubt this has been one of the most important
political and social struggles in Honduras. It has meant many victories and
advances as peoples. COPINH today confronts many challenges and re-encounters
with COPINH’s mission in order continue the struggle at this moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The work and thought of our sister Berta has clearly left its
mark. She pushed this project of struggle strongly, defying the multiple oppressions
that befall people, expressed today in voracious national and transnational
corporations who enrich themselves with the thriving business of energy
production based in the plunder of communities and who assassinated her for
that struggle two years ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of our sister
Berta’s transition - which still remains in impunity even though the
masterminds are known - we reaffirm the
demand of the Lenca people for truth, justice and deep structural changes for
our people and for Honduras. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To demand justice for Berta, to breath life into this seed
of freedom, and so that in our Honduras we can plant other seeds of freedom
that flourish in the midst of profound oppression, <b>we invite you to join us in La
Esperanza, Intibucá from March 22nd-24th, 2018.</b> We await you with
joyful rebellion, music, street action and dialogue amongst those who want a
future of life, justice and respect for the sovereign will of the people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In this encoutner we will talk about the case of our sister
and we will link the distinct efforts to forge a strong path of struggle for
the re-foundation of Honduras. That is what will guarantee the sovereignty of
the people to decide without imposition and corrupt authoritarianism in order
to truly achieve justice.<o:p></o:p></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-46988732149569953922018-01-20T01:20:00.003-08:002018-01-20T01:21:21.665-08:00ALERT! Edwin Espinal arrested for participation in protests against the dictatorship<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6SAJR012MYoyXkJJhHlN06adCcAt9YBJE3BjDnlwW5jKp69YlVc9QZwT04iMmd3eiyJ_irOr_b_FHnmiXyCKM2utQEZPbf8sGd-_EPEYBspNQjPrPxDOvg34UB_hcguJuuFXOnfMa0DD/s1600/26904534_10156021424718908_8679672944540949120_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #5588aa; float: right; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6SAJR012MYoyXkJJhHlN06adCcAt9YBJE3BjDnlwW5jKp69YlVc9QZwT04iMmd3eiyJ_irOr_b_FHnmiXyCKM2utQEZPbf8sGd-_EPEYBspNQjPrPxDOvg34UB_hcguJuuFXOnfMa0DD/s200/26904534_10156021424718908_8679672944540949120_n.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="112" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Tonight, while driving home, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">compañero </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Edwin Espinal was captured by members of the police along the Fuerzas Aramadas Boulevard in Tegucigalpa for his participation in the protests days before against the imposition of fraud and dictatorship by Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Edwin Espinal is a well-known figure in the struggle against the dictatorial regime imposed since the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras. His capture stems from orders by JOH the dictator to repress, demonize and criminalize the dignified protest of people who oppose the imposition of violence and betrayal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Edwin's capture comes days after having been victim of a demonization campaign in social media, just like what has happened to our brothers Martín Fernández and Víctor Fernández from the Broad Movement for Justice and Dignity (MADJ), as well as Father Melo from Radio Progreso among a long list of sisters and brothers in struggle against the regime.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">The actions by the JOH government seek to sew fear and consternation amongst the mobilized people, as has been demonstrated by the brutal displays of force by the military police and the illegal statements by FUSINA, trying to interfere with the basic right to protest.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Nonetheless, the strength of our cry as a Honduran people against the illegality and illegitimacy of JOH is clear and we are sure that nobody will rest until he falls.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">While JOH's spurious electoral tribunal certifies his illegal victory, they capture and criminalize compatriots who struggle for truth and dignity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">They use an iron fist against the people, but for foreign interests they kneel down as low as they can.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">COPINH demands Edwin Espinal be released immediately and holds the Honduran state accountable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">We call on the national and international community to denounce these actions of criminalization along with the series of assassinations, aggressions, campaigns of stigmatization and brutal repression by the state against a mobilized people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">COPINH calls for a deepening of national mobilization against fraud and dictatorship.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">The more they repress, the more we struggle and organize.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">January 19th, 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">With the ancestral strength of Berta, Lempira, Mota and Etempica our voices rise, full of life, justice, dignity, freedom and peace!</span>COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-38513774484440428642017-12-19T05:21:00.000-08:002017-12-19T05:23:28.623-08:00The COPINH DOES NOT recognize the statement of Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and calls for the permanent mobilization<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/12/el-copinh-no-reconoce-resolucion-del.html">here in spanish</a>)<br />
The Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) DOES NOT<br />
recognize the statement made yesterday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) which claims Juan Orlando Hernández as the winner. This decision represents the final consummation of the electoral fraud through which they seek to make a mockery of the Honduran people’s will expressed on November 26th, which is to expel the dictatorship and its corrupt cabal from the presidency. The fraud carried out throughout the process is clear and evident, starting with the illegality of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)’s candidacy itself and especially in the hours following the closure of the polls when the opposition’s victory became apparent. With their timid statements the OAS and EU have corroborated what the people have already declared in the streets - all of the irregularities of the corrupt electoral process and Honduran state make clear that this is the imposition of a dictatorship. The statement by the TSE is yet another affront to the Honduran people and we denounce that all of its members who were involved should be prosecuted.<br />
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*COPINH calls for the permanent mobilization and organization in the streets of the Lenca and Honduran people as a whole to make the legitimate demand that JOH immediately step down, or, short of that, for there to be a new electoral process with guarantees and transparency, supervised by the international community, beyond the OAS and also including representation of the Honduran grassroots social movements.<br />
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*COPINH demands that the armed forces and Honduran police immediately cease their repression against the Honduran people who are exercising their constitutional right to protest a government based on imposition!<br />
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*COPINH calls on the international community to denounce the violent and murderous actions by agents of the state’s repressive forces, which have already taken 22 Honduran lives, and to push for the governments of the world to refuse recognition of the criminal declaration by Honduras’s TSE.<br />
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*COPINH and the Lenca people are rising up, not in defense of a party or a candidate, but rather in defense of dignity itself.<br />
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For the blood spilled by Berta Cáceres and all of our ancestors, we demand justice! We demand the downfall of the killer regime!<br />
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With the ancestral strength of Berta, Iselaca, Etempica and Mota we raise our voices full of life, justice, freedom, dignity and peace.<br />
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December 18th, 2017<br />
La Esperanza, Intibucá, HondurasCOPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-41652176371670196312017-12-15T12:21:00.003-08:002017-12-15T12:25:11.024-08:00COPINH communicates the following about the repression suffered today, December 15, 2017.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/12/el-copinh-comunica-sobre-la-represion.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">AQUI ESPAÑOL</span></a>)<br />
COPINH communicates the following about the repression suffered today in the peaceful roadblock on the road that travels between La Esperanza and Siguatepeque.<br />
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In the early morning hours of today, December 15, 2017, a roadblock was set up on the road between La Esperanza and Siguatepeque as part of the protests around the country. Without delay, members of the National Police from La Esperanza, and the military, presumably the Battalion of Engineers of Siguatepeque, arrived to violently evict the protest using tear gas. Faced with this, the people at the road block including Bertha Zúniga and other members of the General Coordination of COPINH headed to the mountainous area to flee the repression and were pursued for a significant time. The violent incidents included use of tear gas, hitting people with batons, and rock throwing by the repressive forces of the State against the protesters.<br />
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COPINH denounces the excessive persecution with the objective of realizing detentions, intimidating, and beating the protesters. Today’s repression adds to the violent actions by the repressive forces on previous days against the protests between La Esperanza and Siguatepeque which have included excessive use of force to evict the roadblocks, intimidation, taking of photographs for persecution, illegal detentions, illegal retentions, tracking people, threats of rape and murder, and the use of live bullets on Monday, December 11, 2017.COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-39950270093768409672017-12-05T11:42:00.000-08:002017-12-05T11:42:03.352-08:00Lenca people demand Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) step down immediately!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/12/pueblo-lenca-exige-la-renuncia.html">HERE IN SPANISH</a>)<br />
For over a week, the people have defended in the streets the will that they expressed at the polls. The flagrant theft that they want to carry out through fraud is undeniable. The people know it and the international community should understand that the narrow interests of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) and the elite powers that he represents alone are maintaining the crisis by refusing to accept defeat.<br />
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It has been clearly demonstrated how the leadership of the National Party, which includes the President of the Supreme Electoral Council David Matamoros, have committed fraud in the presidential elections in order to illegally keep themselves power. Therefore, results from this institution are not and will not be reliable nor in any way credible, and the people have shown as much in the streets.<br />
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COPINH is clear that the hundreds of mobilizations, highway blockades, peaceful protests and expressions of resistance go beyond this electoral process. They represent a cry of the people as a whole to move beyond the hatred, violence and submissiveness that have characterized the years of JOH’s government and his other coup-supporting predecessors, years inundated with corruption, impunity, assassinations, approval of spurious laws, handing over of territories, illegal concessions, and poverty and hunger for the majority.<br />
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The struggle in the territories and in the streets is the key action in these moments and must continue. The dignity and strength of the people’s struggle in the streets is what has led the National Police and the COBRA forces to set down the arms they were using against the people. We salute this dignified action and call on the armed forces and other repressive state bodies to understand their role as part of the people and respect the actions of that people.<br />
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It is clear that the call in the streets is not just about recognizing the obvious electoral victory of Salvador Nasralla, but is above all the cry of the Honduran people to say JOH MUST GO! It is no longer about him recognizing the victory, it is about him stepping down from the presidency and thereby ending the crisis to which our Honduras has been subjected.<br />
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COPINH calls on the international community to take all pertinent measures to ensure that JOH’s desperation to maintain power does not lead to more spilling of blood by the Honduran people.<br />
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As such, the Lenca people, organized in COPINH demand that:<br />
JOH’s government immediately hand over the presidency to a temporary government of national consensus until January 27th, 2018, the day in which Salvador Nasralla will be seated as President.<br />
The resistance in favor of recognition of the people’s will as expressed at the polls strengthen and consolidate through territorial organization.<br />
That the international community take a side and activate the pertinent mechanisms so that JOH’s desperation to maintain power does not lead to further spilling of blood by the Honduran people.<br />
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For the blood shed by Berta Cáceres and all of our ancestors, we demand justice! We demand that end of this killer regime!<br />
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With the ancestral strength of Berta, Iselaca, Etempica and Mota we raise our voices full of Life, Justice and Peace.<br />
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December 5th, 2017.COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-65287618286484813192017-11-29T12:17:00.001-08:002017-11-29T12:17:07.550-08:00COPINH Calls to Respect the Will of the Honduran People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/11/copinh-llama-respetar-la-voluntad-del.html">AQUI</a> en español)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Civic
Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) calls for
the respect of Honduran people’s will who took a position against continuity
and dictatorship on November 26 and has communicated the decision to get the
dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) out of the Presidency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COPINH is a
popular organization that fundamentally believes in community and grassroots
political processes that make political participation a daily struggle and not
just a call every four years to change executioners. However, despite all the
manipulation, vote buying, clientelism and deceit, the Honduran people have
clearly stated that they don’t want to continue to live in the violent
situation imposed by the JOH government which represents a continuation of the
2009 coup d’etat and is an ally of the oligarchic economic structures. The
people have expressed, even in the highly controlled and manipulated electoral
process, that this coup-supporting, racist, extractivist government only represents
hatred and death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Honduran people don’t forget that this government is complicit in the
assassination of our General Coordinator Berta Cáceres and have expressed this
belief in thousands of public protests and in the most recent, last Sunday. The
people know the complicity of JOH’s government with DESA’s owners and the
powers that be - unpunished murderers that are protected by a cloak of impunity
that the corrupt and colonialist state enables. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The same hate and fear that persecuted and assassinated Berta is the
same that wants to impose a dictatorship by means of violence and fraud. What
has occurred in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and the divulgation of
votes is a large crude lie that reflects the dirty, lying nature of the state.
The delay in the divulgation of results, like the ambiguities in their public
announcements are a clear sign of the development of fraud. The sudden
reduction of the percentage differences favoring JOH, is also a demonstration
of this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The structural changes that this country needs cannot be achieved
through a voting process but instead through means of liberating practices of
our peoples, in the defense of our territories, our autonomies, and living
alternatives to capitalism in which life, dignity and liberty come before
business and profit. For this reason, our organization will remain vigilant in
the fulfillment of the will of the people.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COPINH calls to defend the decision of the people to avoid dictatorship.
We call on all popular and grassroots organizations to not only defend their
decision but to unite and pronounce in favor of the construction of the society
we want. We convoke the entire international community to be observers of the
events that will unfold in the coming days, to avoid a blood bath in what may
be a new coup d’etat perpetrated by the same elite political class. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the ancestral force of Berta, Lempira Mota, Iselaca y Etempia, we
raise our voices full of life, justice, liberty, dignity and peace. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Written in La Esperanza, Intibucá, November 29, 2017 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-53186682376483165832017-11-16T15:19:00.001-08:002017-11-16T15:37:10.939-08:00Statement by Senator Patrick Leahy on the Need for Justice in Honduras<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. LEAHY. Mr.
President, I want to speak about a subject that <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">many Senators are
aware of and should be deeply concerned about.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #333333;">As we remember, in the early morning hours of
March 3, 2016, </span><span style="color: #333333;">Honduras lost one of
its most courageous and charismatic </span><span style="color: #333333;">indigenous leaders,
Berta Caceres. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Ms. Caceres was the general </span><span style="color: #333333;">coordinator of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">National Council </span><span style="color: #333333;"> of Popular and Indigenous </span><span style="color: #333333;">Organizations of
Honduras, COPINH.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">She was gunned down
by assassins in her home in the village of </span><span style="color: #333333;">La </span><span style="color: #333333;">Esperanza,
Intibuca.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Berta Caceres spent her life defending
indigenous rights, </span><span style="color: #333333;">particularly to
land and natural resources. In 2015, she won the </span><span style="color: #333333;">prestigious Goldman
Environmental Prize for her outstanding </span><span style="color: #333333;">activism and
leadership. She and COPINH had been supporting land </span><span style="color: #333333;">struggles
throughout western Honduras, and because of that--because </span><span style="color: #333333;">she was exercising
rights guaranteed by Honduran law and </span><span style="color: #333333;">international
law--she and the communities that she and COPINH </span><span style="color: #333333;">supported were the
frequent targets of death threats.</span></span></div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-53750641519619319802017-11-13T13:58:00.002-08:002017-11-13T13:58:33.883-08:00Fake Honduran Twitter: the digital campaign against Berta Cáceres and COPINH<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3" id="3db9" name="3db9" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;">Erin Gallagher </span></div>
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A network of fake accounts tweeted a smear campaign against <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-death-of-berta-caceres" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-death-of-berta-caceres" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Berta Cáceres</a>and <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://twitter.com/COPINHHONDURAS" href="https://twitter.com/COPINHHONDURAS" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">COPINH</a> three months before Berta was murdered. This was just one component of a larger campaign that was waged against COPINH for years due to their opposition to the <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/proyecto-hidroelectrico-agua-zarca-honduras" href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/proyecto-hidroelectrico-agua-zarca-honduras" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project</a>.</div>
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<a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.gaipe.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Represa-de-Violencia-ES-FINAL-.pdf" href="https://www.gaipe.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Represa-de-Violencia-ES-FINAL-.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">A new report</a> by an independent team of attorneys linked Berta’s assassination to the highest levels of Capital Energy Development SA de CV (DESA), the company whose hydroelectric dam project Berta and COPINH were protesting. <a href="https://medium.com/@erin_gallagher/fake-honduran-twitter-the-digital-campaign-against-berta-c%C3%A1ceres-and-copinh-3d1ea62e61ab">MORE>>></a></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-86044541835328360082017-11-07T07:24:00.002-08:002017-11-07T07:28:02.923-08:00Twenty months have passed since the assassination of Berta <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Twenty months have passed since the
night of the vile assassination of Berta Cáceres, General Coordinator of the
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">During this time
the Honduran authorities have demonstrated a lack of political will to
prosecute those who ordered her murder, confront the structural causes of her
death, or end the persecution of those who defend their territory in Honduras.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Those who wanted to take the life
of Berta Cáceres and thereby try to end to the fierce struggle of COPINH and
the Lenca people have been hiding behind a cloak of impunity. Nonetheless, with
just minimal access to information, an international group of advisors was able
to conduct an independent investigation and unveil the network of corruption,
cruelty, persecution and hatred behind her murder, and the perpetrators at the
center of it, members of the DESA corporation. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">In view of the above, the
undersigned support COPINH’s demands to the Honduran authorities with respect
to:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> 1. The arrest, trial and
conviction of those who ordered and planned the murder of Berta Cáceres and the
persecution of COPINH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">2. Cancellation of the concession along
the Gualcarque River granted to Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), which the
GAIPE report clearly shows formed part of a criminal and murderous network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">3. Assurance of a true investigation
into the crime against Berta Cáceres, through the dismissal of all the people
involved in the case and the creation of a new investigation team subject to oversight
by international organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">4. The adoption of effective and
immediate measures of safety and protection for the legal team, COPINH, and
Berta's family, who are involved in the case in pursuit of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Signatures: <a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/p/1.html">ALL Signatures until November 6, 2017.</a></span></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-89404420434161551692017-11-04T07:53:00.002-07:002017-11-04T07:55:07.434-07:00DESA Killed Berta! Capture the people who gave the orders!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On March 4</span><sup style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of
2016, just a few hours after the assassination of our Coordinator Berta
Cáceres, COPINH and the daughters and son of our sister denounced that her
assassination stemmed from the struggle that she lead against the DESA
corporation because of the Río Blanco community’s opposition to the Agua Zarca
project of death.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Today, 20 months after her
assassination, the investigators from GAIPE have corroborated with the upmost
possible objectivity the unequivocal link between this killer corporation, its
owners, directors and employers in the persecution, criminalization, and
stigmatization that she suffered, as well as the planning, coordination and
execution of the killing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The corroboration of the
actions leading to her assassination doesn’t come from witnesses or hypotheses.
It comes from the words of the actors themselves, from their phone
conversations, text messages and WhatsApp messages. They implicated themselves.
The key information comes from their own words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The information analyzed
by GAIPE is the same that the Attorney General has had in its possession since
at least May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2016, which means that for over a year and a half
the authorities had the proof and have not had even a minimal inclination to go
after the plotters. A mantle of impunity envelops the whole investigation, as we
have denounced since the beginning. All of the irregularities, the theft of
information, the lack of transparency, the illegalities, the setbacks and
suspensions of hearings have now been revealed to be the Honduran Attorney
General’s office trying to cover up those who plotted the crime, obviously
pressured by the executive and the business groups behind the assassination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It shows once again that
the State has been taken over by a murderous mafia and that we, the Honduran
people, and especially the indigenous peoples, are its victims. It shows once
again that the economic elites who benefited from the 2009 coup d’état think
that they can do whatever they want without having to pay the consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">COPINH is not opposed to
development in Honduras, what we oppose is this “development” that means the
death of our communities, our identity and our territories. We oppose deceitful
people filling their pockets at the expense of our dead, at the expense of the
death of Berta Cáceres and all of those of us who struggle against this unjust
system where the majority is repressed for the benefit of a small economic
elite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The production of
supposedly “renewable energy” or “clean energy” are just the cheap words of
businessmen who see energy production as a business and are willing to roll
over any and everything, including the law and the people, in order to maximize
their profits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The assassination of Berta
Cáceres will not remain in impunity. COPINH, the Lenca people and all dignified
people in Honduras and the world will fight until the final consequences for
their to be justice, for the plotters to be punished and so that no more of
these deaths occur. So that as peoples we can continue to defend our
territories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The corporation Desarrollos
Energéticos S.A. led by David Castillo, members of the Atala Zablah family, and
other directors, the builder of the Hydroelectric Project of death Agua Zarca, financed
by the CABEI, FMO and FinnFund banks, supported by USAID, SERNA (MiAmbiente),
Banco Ficohsa, Voyth Hydro-Siemens, the armed forces of Honduras, the National
Police and private security forces, the COHEP and the AHER, was the corporation
that assassinated Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores. We have said it since the
beginning and it has been confirmed by the recent investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Because of this, COPINH demands:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1. The capture,
prosecution and punishment of all of those who ordered and plotted the
assassination of Berta Cáceres and the persecution of COPINH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2. The cancellation of the
concession along the Gualcarque River to the criminal and murderous corporation
Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. DESA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3. Assurances of a real
investigation into the crime against Berta Cáceres, by removing all of those
involved in the case and creating a new investigation team under the oversight
of international organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4. The adoption of
effective and immediate measures of protection and security for the legal team,
COPINH and the family, all of whom are involved in the case seeking justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We call on Honduran
society not to allow this case to remain in impunity, justice for Berta means
justice for our people and for the many people assassinated at the hands of
corporate and State criminals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We call on Honduran
organizations and grassroots social movements to continue forward in defense of
our territories and lives. To demonstrate that Berta didn’t die, she multiplied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We call on international
solidarity to join us in these demands for justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Berta lives on,
COPINH is strong!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What do we
demand? Justice!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Punish the
plotters!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#DesaAsesina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#20MesesSinJusticia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#JusticiaParaBerta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#DondeEstanLosAutoresIntelectales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">With the ancestral
strength of Berta, Iselaca, Lempira, Mota and Etempica we raise our voices full
of life, justice, dignity, freedom and peace!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-37877166609145055212017-10-29T09:58:00.001-07:002017-10-29T09:58:53.383-07:00The Grass is Greener-2017-10-28 (4pm) Gaspar Sanchez Equality and Rights in Honduras
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MEXICO CITY — It was just before midnight when two men kicked in the door to Berta Cáceres’s house in the small Honduran mountain town of La Esperanza. Moving past the kitchen, one of them opened the door to her bedroom and fired six shots. She died moments later.</div>
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In a country where the fight to protect land rights provokes violent retaliation, the murder in March 2016 of another environmental defender might simply have receded into a grim tally of regrettable losses.</div>
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But Ms. Cáceres, 44, had won international acclaim for leading her indigenous Lenca community against a dam planned on their land. Her prominence transformed her killing into an emblematic crime — and turned the investigation that followed into a challenge to the entrenched impunity of the powerful in Honduras.</div>
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Now, 20 months after the killing, a team of five international lawyers has warned that the people who ordered it may never face justice.</div>
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The evidence, the lawyers said, points to a plot against Ms. Cáceres that was months in the making and reached up to senior executives of Desarrollos Energéticos, known as Desa, the Honduran company holding the dam concession.</div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-12223618935785608552017-08-21T08:40:00.005-07:002017-08-21T08:46:25.552-07:00COPINH Y MADJ: The Public Ministry and the judicial authorities continue violating the rights of the victims in the Berta Caceres case.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/08/comunicado-copinh-y-madj-el-ministerio.html"><span lang="ES">ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL</span></a><br />
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<span lang="ES">The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH and the legal team of the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice MADJ denouces again the violation of rights and basic procedures with respect to the judicial process in the case of the murder of our <i>compañera</i> Berta Cáceres and the attempted murder of our <i>compañero</i> Gustavo Castro.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Today, August 21st, the preliminary hearing is scheduled for 4 of the 8 accused: Henry Hernández, Óscar Torres, Edilson Duarte, and Émerson Duarte. However, the Public Ministry, with an absolute lack of respect for due process and the rights of the victims, has not provided the information that supports their accusation so that the victim’s representatives can analyze and participate adequately in the judicial process.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">The lack of provision of the necessary information signifies, additionally, the violation of the rights of the victims to participate appropriately in the judicial process and violates, according to international human rights standards, the rights of the accused, particularly with respect to what is established in article 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights and article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">The legal representation of the victims has requested on 6 occasions access to the necessary information to participate in the process, nevertheless, this has been expressedly and tacitly denied by the Public Ministry.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">The notification of this hearing coincides with the irregular behavior by the Public Ministry throughtout the whole process. The notification arrived the friday before the hearing, without having verified the provision of evidence so that the representatives of the victims, and even the accused persons could have the necessary time to prepare their defense, according to the principles of rule of law. Does the suddenness of this hearing have a hidden interest? What are they trying to achieve by hiding the information?</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">We emphasize that up until today, the requests by the victims for access to the information contained in materials that were removed from Berta Caceres’ home following her murder have not been responded to. It is worrisome that there has been no answer regarding the contents of 3 celular phones, 1 electronic tablet, 1 laptop, 1 hard drive, and 5 USB memories, which were removed from Berta’s home by agents of the police and Public Ministry.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">COPINH and the legal team of MADJ denouces the irregular handling of this process and the construction of impunity, as a result of the impediments to the victims’ legal representation realizing their functions.</span> </div>
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<span lang="ES">As this hearing occurs, the rights of the victims are being violated.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">When will we see the intellectual authors?</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Justice for Berta!</span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Justice for Gustavo! </span></div>
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<br />COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-49735610555987454702017-08-18T17:31:00.002-07:002017-08-18T17:31:36.343-07:00Preliminary Hearing for the remaining 4 defendants in the Berta Caceres case<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-51527879448737739152017-07-06T15:11:00.000-07:002017-07-06T16:13:43.138-07:00COPINH communicates that FMO and Finn Fund have confirmed their official exit from the murderous Agua Zarca Project <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.it/2017/07/copinh-comunica-que-los-bancos-fmo-y.html">AQUI EN ESPAÑOL</a><br />
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The banks' exit responds to the denouncements and indefatigable struggle the communities organized in COPINH have carried out against the financing by banks of projects that openly violate the rights of Lenca communities and have been imposed and developed through the murder of leaders like Berta Caceres and Tomas Garcia. <br />
This exit has been a long and difficult process where COPINH has been constantly ignored and invisibilized. The exit of the banks is a victory for communities organized in defense of the sacred Gualcarque River and the rights of the Lenca people. This victory is a product of cosmic justice/reckoning in which our ancestors have accompanied us constantly. <br />
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However, we denounce that the FMO and Finn Fund have ignored COPINH's recommendations about a responsible exit. To the contrary, the banks continue promoting a decision-making process about a hydroelectric dam project that could generate more violence and repression. This process contemplates impunity for the murders and crimes committed and the tries to make invisible the responsibility of DESA and the state of Honduras for the violence in the region. COPINH denounces that this process has already been rejected by the Lenca people of Rio Blanco and that COPINH has informed FMO and their consultant of the serious problems with this process on multiple occasions, however, they have ignored us. <br />
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In the same way, in their public declaration, FMO and Finn Fund do not consider their responsibility for the death and human rights violations that have resulted from the project. We continue demanding that the banks recognize their responsibility and that they apologize to the affected communities and COPINH, which they have refused to do. <br />
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We thank the organizations that have accompanied us in this struggle against the financing of death in our communities and we invite you to continue to join us in demanding justice, truth, and reparation.COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-63932083257893134312017-06-29T06:06:00.003-07:002017-06-29T06:07:40.514-07:00Berta's death sentence was written eight years ago: COPINH on the 8 year anniversary of the coup d'etat<div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0600; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.61px;">d and indigenous communities of Honduras. With the coup d’etat, a mafia installed a criminal military dictatorship that continued on and deepened the process of depriving the Lenca and indigenous communities of Honduras of the right to make decisions about our own territories. The installed regime, through death and with the bloody hands of its repressive military, financed by ...<a href="http://hondurasresists.blogspot.it/2017/06/bertas-death-sentence-was-written-eight.html">MORE>>></a></span></div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-84759830939606059912017-06-21T15:55:00.000-07:002017-06-21T15:55:10.965-07:00Alert: COPINH demands respect for the lives of Lenca people in Río Blanco<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.176px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0.25em 0px 5px; orphans: 2; padding: 2px 0px 5px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">COPINH urgently communicates to the national and international community our serious worry about the defenseless state of the Lenca people in Río Blanco, faced with armed men and constant threats. We insist that the authorities take immediate action to protect the physical wellbeing and lives of COPINH members in Río Blanco, who continue to defend their ancestral territory against the invasion of people linked to the DESA corporation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In recent months, and especially in the past few weeks, the threats against COPINH members have intensified, especially while they are working on their ancestral lands in Vega del Achiotal and Vega del Culatón, sites where the DESA corporation has invaded Lenca territory to build the Agua Zarca project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Madrid family, who is originally from santa Bárbara, illegally took over Lenca territory and sold part of it to the DESA corporation. Several of these people have been employees of the DESA corporation and have been put to work threatening members of COPINH, including our sister Berta Cáceres. We remind you that one of them threatened that they were going to “set things straight with Berta one way or another” just a few months before her assassination and they warned to look out for the consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We denounce that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Franklin Madrid has pointed firearms at COPINH members in Río Blanco and fired into the air close to COPINH members while they worked their ancestral landsb.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>The frequency of the threats is increasing and the COPINH members are in a state of complete vulnerability against the armed men who are openly threatening and intimidating them.<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Today, June 21<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup>, in the morning hours, several armed men once again threatened COPINH members while they were working at Vega del Culaton.<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We alert that one of the armed men threatened to kill at any moment the children of Francisco Javier Sánchez, Coordinator of the Indigenous Council of Río Blanco and member of the General Coordination of COPINH.</b></span></div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-54142731158207918502017-06-06T15:30:00.003-07:002017-06-06T15:30:58.960-07:00Calling on national and international organizations: Preliminary hearing in case of Berta Cáceres set to begin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8SaR8gjUNU5zrwr4e_dl2W-BWzDKvHFJy6mNiR_72jPSzjR3x7LjBRlP2IfQ2HZF6A6T2_6AqESDSqx0t1LrW1UYvHgO3Sru70TjayeA9i7DQQdaUfyfcVkGdRvTQOZhq4paWauPeSQv/s1600/impunidad.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #888888; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8SaR8gjUNU5zrwr4e_dl2W-BWzDKvHFJy6mNiR_72jPSzjR3x7LjBRlP2IfQ2HZF6A6T2_6AqESDSqx0t1LrW1UYvHgO3Sru70TjayeA9i7DQQdaUfyfcVkGdRvTQOZhq4paWauPeSQv/s1600/impunidad.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(<a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.it/2017/06/llamado-las-organizaciones-nacionales-e.html">EN ESPAÑOL</a>) </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The preliminary hearing for one of the most renowned human rights cases in Latin America in recent memory – the case of Berta Cáceres - will take place this Wednesday June 7th, in the First District Court in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">The hearing comes after two previous continuances due to failure to provide evidence to all parties to the judicial process and in the midst of numerous irregularities in the investigation, which has been under the exclusive control of the Attorney General. <span> </span></span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The purpose of this hearing is to formalize charges against four of the eight men detained thus far:<span style="background: white;">Mariano Díaz Chávez</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">(Major in the Armed Forces), Sergio Rodríguez (Technical and Environmental Manager for the DESA corporation), Douglas Bustillo (former Security Chief for the DESA corporation) and Elvin Heriberto Rápalo (the supposed hitman).</span><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">The purpose of the case brought by COPINH and the family of Berta Cáceres is to take a broader look than the case brought by the Attorney General and thereby demonstrate that the assassination is not an isolated incident carried out by individual interests but rather part of a systematic attack against COPINH and its general coordinator. <a href="http://hondurasresists.blogspot.it/2017/06/first-hearing-in-case-of-assassination.html?m=1">MORE>>></a></span></span></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-45929915382417177112017-05-31T07:50:00.004-07:002017-05-31T07:50:59.104-07:00Declaration of the 11th General Assembly of COPINH: Berta Lives. Facing extractivist death, more organization and struggle is our path<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.176px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0.25em 0px 5px; orphans: 2; padding: 2px 0px 5px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">We have gathered in this XI Assembly to discuss and debate the future of our organization, taking into account the tremendous obstacles that present themselves along the way, but with full determination and commitment to the ancestral struggle of the Lenca people, we have made strategic decisions about COPINH’s work in coming years.</span><span lang="ES-HN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span lang="ES-HN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">We have united our hearts and visions, guided by our leader and ancestor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ES-HN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores with the strength of her spirit and the legacy of her struggle, who for the first time is not with us physically in this Assembly, he have carried out deep discussions about the communities’ needs and the path that our organization will take in the current moment and our reading of the times ahead. <a href="http://hondurasresists.blogspot.it/2017/05/the-path-is-more-struggle-more.html">MORE>>></a></span></div>
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COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-89881894805346193802017-05-25T12:07:00.001-07:002017-05-25T12:08:27.640-07:00European Parliament support demands of COPINH<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vxqaGMNACkk" width="480"></iframe><br />
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- video en versión ES <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRNW03jjec">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRNW03jjec</a><br />
- video en versión FR <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8tSkMa20Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8tSkMa20Y</a></div>
COPINHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102063528551083341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899479928697231030.post-83552010052868755792017-04-09T12:06:00.000-07:002017-04-09T12:06:09.223-07:00Berta is dead, but the movement she started lives. COPINH celebrates its 24th anniversary<br />
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<img alt="“Your bullets won’t kill our dreams.” From the 24th anniversary celebration on COPINH’s liberated territory, Utopia. Credit: Beverly Bell " height="285" src="http://www.thedawn-news.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo1-1024x732-1024x732.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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By: Beverly Bell / Source: Other Worlds / The Dawn News / April 4, 2017</div>
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The Convergence of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has defied all efforts over the past year, by the Honduran government and the DESA dam company, to destroy it. This past Monday, March 27, 24 years after BertaCáceres cofounded the Lenca indigenous organization, COPINH hosted an anniversary celebration of rebellion and recommitment.</div>
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About 150 people from throughout Honduras and at least five other countries joined for a Lenca ceremony; a forum on challenges and advances; a concert; a film festival; and a humble feast of roasted pig, rice, tortillas, and birthday cake. The event closed late at night with an open-air performance of “Ancestras”, a new play by the Teatro Taller Tegucigalpa (Tegucigalpa Theater Workshop) about COPINH’s fight to defend the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es-419&q=http://fpif.org/one-year-resistance-rio-blanco/&source=gmail&ust=1491406042525000&usg=AFQjCNGwMW1lpxQ14dYwiaR7pRri8PNl2w" href="http://fpif.org/one-year-resistance-rio-blanco/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f47857; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Gualcarque River</a>, and structural injustice by the government and oligarchy.</div>
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COPNH has not only survived, it continues to serve as a source of inspiration for indigenous and other movements throughout Honduras and the world. As with <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es-419&q=http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/02/vision-and-legacy-berta-caceres&source=gmail&ust=1491406042526000&usg=AFQjCNHgupm1nwA-r-QSVSjhhO00wTB40w" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/02/vision-and-legacy-berta-caceres" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f47857; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Berta Cáceres’ life work</a>, COPINH’s goes far beyond environmental defense. Its aim is to transform the political, economic, and environmental landscape of Honduras, and – in conjunction with movements elsewhere – of the world. <a href="http://www.thedawn-news.org/2017/04/04/berta-is-dead-but-the-movement-she-started-lives-copinh-celebrates-its-24th-anniversary/">MORE>>></a></div>
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