garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_es-278af4177ca16425.pdf

A coalition of international and national organizations, led by Friends of the Earth International, denounces the kidnapping of four members of the Triunfo de la Cruz community and the Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH) by armed men in police uniforms. The letter links these attacks to a broader pattern of systematic aggression against the Garífuna people by agribusiness, tourism, and real estate companies, specifically naming INDURA, MACERICA, and IDETRISA. It highlights the Honduran government's failure to comply with a 2015 Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruling regarding land restitution for the Triunfo de la Cruz community.

• On July 18, 2020, four individuals—Alberth Snaider Centeno Tomas, Milton Joel Martínez Alvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía, and Albert Sentana Thomas—were kidnapped from their homes by armed men wearing National Police clothing and vests with the Department of Police Investigation (DPI) insignia.
• The Garífuna indigenous community in Honduras faces systematic aggression from agribusiness, tourism, and housing developments, which the document describes as a 'neoliberal model of privatization and commodification' of natural assets and territories.
• Specific entities accused of illegal land possession and usurpation in the north coast and Tela municipality include the INDURA hotel complex, Punta Izopo National Park, and real estate developers MACERICA and IDETRISA.
• The Honduran government has failed to implement a October 8, 2015, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) sentence that ordered the restitution of lands and damages to the Triunfo de la Cruz community, including the demarcation of 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory.
• The document reports a severe escalation of violence against the community, noting that 17 people (11 men and 6 women) were murdered in 2019.

APA

Nansen, K. (2020). garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_es-278af4177ca16425.pdf. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_ES.pdf

Chicago

Nansen, Karin. garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_es-278af4177ca16425.pdf. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{nansen2020garifunasolidaritylettertohondurasgovernmentfriendsoftheearthinternationales278af4177ca16425pdf, author = {Nansen, Karin}, title = {{garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government\_friends-of-the-earth-international\_es-278af4177ca16425.pdf}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }