Solidaridad internacionalista con la comunidad garífuna de Honduras

Friends of the Earth International denounces the July 18 kidnapping of four leaders from the Triunfo de la Cruz community and OFRANEH in Honduras. The statement links this violence to a broader pattern of systematic aggression by banana and palm oil companies, as well as real estate and tourism developers such as INDURA, MACERICA, and IDETRISA. It highlights the Honduran state's failure to comply with a 2015 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling regarding land restitution for the Triunfo de la Cruz community.

• On July 18, four members of the Triunfo de la Cruz community and the Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH)—Alberth Snaider Centeno Tomas, Milton Joel Martínez Alvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía, and Albert Sentana Thomas—were kidnapped by armed men wearing national police clothing and Department of Police Investigation (DPI) vests.
• The Garífuna indigenous community in Honduras faces systematic aggression from banana and palm oil companies, as well as land usurpation for tourism and housing projects. Specifically, the INDURA hotel complex and PUNTA IZOPO national park in Tela, along with developers MACERICA and IDETRISA, have been accused of illegally possessing land and expelling local residents without the required free, prior, and informed consent mandated by ILO Convention 169.
• The State of Honduras has failed to comply with an October 8, 2015, sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte IDH) which ordered the restitution of lands and reparation of damages to the Triunfo de la Cruz community. The ruling required the state to title and demarcate 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory, return 22 hectares held by the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Municipalidad de Tela, and return 98 hectares illegally held by MACERICA and IDETRISA for the Marbella and Playa Escondida projects.
• Violence against the community has escalated since 2015; in the year preceding the statement, 17 people (11 men and 6 women) were murdered.

APA

admin (2020). Solidaridad internacionalista con la comunidad garífuna de Honduras. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/es/solidaridad-internacionalista-con-la-comunidad-garifuna-de-honduras/

Chicago

admin. Solidaridad internacionalista con la comunidad garífuna de Honduras. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/es/solidaridad-internacionalista-con-la-comunidad-garifuna-de-honduras/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=admin |title=Solidaridad internacionalista con la comunidad garífuna de Honduras |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=16 August 2020 |url=https://www.foei.org/es/solidaridad-internacionalista-con-la-comunidad-garifuna-de-honduras/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{admin2020solidaridad, author = {admin}, title = {{Solidaridad internacionalista con la comunidad garífuna de Honduras}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = aug, url = {https://www.foei.org/es/solidaridad-internacionalista-con-la-comunidad-garifuna-de-honduras/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }