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    Honduras: 224 Years of Resistance of the Garifuna People

    FROM THE EDITORS: The state’s offensive against indigenous communities in Honduras has been particularly cruel against the Lenca and Garifuna peoples. During the pandemic, these communities organized to help those in need and took steps to self-isolate to protect their loved ones. The state, meanwhile, ignored pleas for urgent aid and pushed forward “tourism” development…

  • Honduras: The Garifuna People Seek Community Solutions to Pandemic

    FROM THE EDITORS: We share a reflection by Miriam Miranda, president of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization, OFRANEH, about the work they are doing around the COVID-19 emergency. This is a transcript based on an interview by Radio Temblor. We highlight the community efforts that are being made in Honduras, despite the abandonment of the…

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    Decolonizing Health II: Community Efforts in Abya Yala

    Slowly we perceive―like the rising of the river when it comes down from the mountain―that the rain at the top of the summit hasn’t ceded, and that we must prepare for the sudden flow. After the initial storm, like the soft roots that creep between the stones until they are broken, ideas, actions, and the…

  • Honduras: Guancasco Lenca, A Peace Ritual Between Indigenous Peoples

    Photos by Pável Uranga Before the arrival of the Spaniards to Abya Yala, indigenous peoples maintained their cultural customs and traditions, as old as more than two thousand years before our era, even older in some areas. With the arrival of the Spaniards, everything was desecrated: peoples, cultures, historical records (pyramids, codices, languages, traditions, written,…

    Ten Years After Coup in Honduras, Mobilizations of Native and Black People Persevere, Make Demands

    Ten years after the coup d’etat that brought down President Manuel Zelaya’s government, the consequences lived in the country still generate serious conditions for social coexistence, legality and even the viability of functions of the national state. Members of the Indigenous and Black Organizations of Honduras (COPINH / OFRANEH), have suffered the most from the…