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Afro-Descendant & Indigenous: News & Updates
RRN Letter
September 25, 2015
unjust 2-year detention and false criminal charges against Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, members of the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.
RRN Letter
September 23, 2015
intimidation of and shots fired outside the office of CALAS, an environmental group denouncing abuses by Tahoe Resources mining company in Santa Rosa Dept.
RRN Letter
September 12, 2015
assassination of Gilmer Genaro García Ramírez, Afro-descendant leader of Alto Mira y Frontera community in Nariño Dept.
RRN Letter
August 1, 2015
death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Povenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department
RRN Letter
July 26, 2015
unjust detention of Bernardo Ermitaño López Reyes, member of the Council of Mayan People and community leader with high profile in the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.
RRN Letter
July 13, 2015
attack on Alfredo López, correspondent for Radio Progreso and the network of Garífuna community radio stations
RRN Letter
July 2, 2015
surveillance of Berenice Celeita, Director of the Research and Social Action Association (NOMADESC) at her home in Bogotá
RRN Letter
June 14, 2015
death threats to Omar Esparza, widower of human rights defender Bety Cariño, who was assassinated in 2010 while assisting indigenous communities in Oaxaca State.
RRN Case Update
June 1, 2015
Garífuna community of Barra Vieja on trial for defending ancestral territory
Over the past few decade, RRN members have sent more than a dozen letters to officials in Honduras. They have have denounced an endless series of politically motivated killings and attacks against the Afro-descendant Garífuna people, carried out by wealthy and powerful sectors trying to take over Garífuna lands on the Atlantic coast for agri-business and the global tourist industry. The government of Honduras has been either complicit in the repression, or complicit through its utter lack of political and legal action to hold the powerful accountable for their political crimes.
RRN Letter
May 4, 2015
assassination of Embera Chami indigenous leader Fernando Salazar Calvo, active in artisanal miners’ union and resistance to multinational large-scale mining in Caldas Department