A la resistencia del pueblo hondureño

The report details a period of institutional violence in Honduras following the 2009 coup, characterized by the criminalization of environmental and land defenders, systemic gender-based violence, and the expansion of transnational corporate control over natural resources. It documents specific cases of human rights abuses, including the murders of Berta Cáceres and Keyla Martínez and the forced disappearance of Garífuna leaders. The text argues that the state acted as a facilitator for extractivist projects—such as hydroelectric dams and 'model cities' (ZEDEs)—often ignoring the right to free, prior, and informed consent. It concludes by welcoming the election of Xiomara Castro as a step toward democratic recovery and calls for continued international solidarity to support a feminist and just transition.

• The 2009 coup d'état initiated a 12-year period of institutional violence where the state functioned as a 'narco-state' and a police-military apparatus that systematically violated human rights and served transnational economic interests in the mining and energy sectors.
• Honduras was identified as the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists in 2015, with a significant increase in murders of land and environmental defenders after 2010, often linked to hydroelectric projects implemented without community consultation.
• Gender-based violence in Honduras is described as institutionalized and structural, with femicide rates among the highest in Latin America (4.7 per 100,000 women according to CEPAL) and a reported impunity rate exceeding 90%.
• Transnational corporations (TNCs) have aggressively pursued territorial control through lobbying and political pressure to expand agribusiness and destructive mining-energy megaprojects, often resulting in forced displacement and the loss of food sovereignty for indigenous and Afro-descendant populations.
• The 'Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico' (ZEDEs), or 'model cities,' were territorial concessions that granted near-absolute control to private operators, undermining the Honduran Constitution and the rights of indigenous and Garífuna communities before being repealed in April 2022.
• The Garífuna people of Triunfo de la Cruz have faced systematic aggression and forced disappearances, including the June 18, 2020, disappearance of four leaders, despite a 2015 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling ordering the return of their lands.
• The electricity sector in Honduras is characterized as an oligopoly where a small number of families and business groups control the entire chain of generation, transmission, distribution, and commercialization, a structure facilitated by the 2009 coup.

APA

Forero, L. (2022). A la resistencia del pueblo hondureño. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A-la-resistencia-del-pueblo-hondureño-Solidaridad-internacionalista-y-derechos-de-los-pueblos.pdf

Chicago

Forero, Lyda. A la resistencia del pueblo hondureño. Friends of the Earth International, 2022. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A-la-resistencia-del-pueblo-hondureño-Solidaridad-internacionalista-y-derechos-de-los-pueblos.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forero2022resistencia, author = {Forero, Lyda}, title = {{A la resistencia del pueblo hondureño}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2022}, month = aug, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A-la-resistencia-del-pueblo-hondureño-Solidaridad-internacionalista-y-derechos-de-los-pueblos.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }