Solidarité internationaliste avec la communauté garifuna au Honduras

Friends of the Earth International expresses indignation over the July 18 kidnapping of four members of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) from the Triunfo de la Cruz community. The statement links these disappearances to a broader pattern of systematic aggression against the Garifuna people by banana companies, oil palm plantations, and the real estate and tourism industries. It specifically highlights land usurpation by the Indura hotel complex, Punta Izopo national park, and the companies Macerica and Idetrisa. The document emphasizes that the Honduran state has failed to execute a 2015 Inter-American Court of Human Rights sentence requiring the restitution of 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory and other specific land parcels. The organization calls for the immediate return of the kidnapped individuals and an end to the neoliberal model of land privatization.

• On July 18, four members of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) from the Triunfo de la Cruz community in Tela—including council president Alberth Snider Centeno Tomas—were kidnapped from their homes by armed men wearing national police uniforms and vests from the Department of Police Investigation (DPI).
• The Garifuna indigenous community in Honduras faces systematic attacks from banana companies, industrial oil palm plantations, and real estate and tourism developers who usurp land.
• Specific entities accused of land usurpation and illegal possession include the Indura hotel complex, Punta Izopo national park, and the real estate development companies Macerica and Idetrisa.
• Honduras has violated the right of Garifuna peoples to free, prior, and informed consent as required by ILO Convention 169, which the country ratified in 1995, as none of the mentioned corporate projects underwent such consultation.
• The Honduran state has failed to implement a October 8, 2015, ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which mandated the restitution of 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory, 22 hectares from a workers' union in Tela, and 98 hectares held by Macerica and Idetrisa (for the Marbella and Playa Escondida projects).
• Violence against the community has escalated since 2015, with 17 people (11 men and 6 women) murdered in the previous year.

APA

admin (2020). Solidarité internationaliste avec la communauté garifuna au Honduras. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/fr/solidarite-internationaliste-avec-la-communaute-garifuna-au-honduras/

Chicago

admin. Solidarité internationaliste avec la communauté garifuna au Honduras. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/fr/solidarite-internationaliste-avec-la-communaute-garifuna-au-honduras/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=admin |title=Solidarité internationaliste avec la communauté garifuna au Honduras |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=16 August 2020 |url=https://www.foei.org/fr/solidarite-internationaliste-avec-la-communaute-garifuna-au-honduras/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{admin2020solidarit, author = {admin}, title = {{Solidarité internationaliste avec la communauté garifuna au Honduras}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = aug, url = {https://www.foei.org/fr/solidarite-internationaliste-avec-la-communaute-garifuna-au-honduras/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }