News, humans rights abuses and opinions from the Honduran social and political movement
Newsletter 2nd of May, 2012
News, humans rights abuses and opinions from the Honduran social and political movement
HONDURAS
Honduran Campesinos recovered land in five provinces
Organized peasant groups from two farmer workers unions proceed this morning to recuperate back land lots in five Honduran "departmentos" or provinces: Cortes, Olancho, Francisco Morazán, El Paraíso, and Yoro, as part of the activities carried out within the framework of the commemoration of International Day of Peasants.
Sexual Diversity is a Right for which LIBRE is Ready to Struggle
Sexual Diversity consists of the distinct possibilities that exist in human preferences and without exception all of us are a part of this diversity, some within heterosexuality, others within homosexuality, others within lesbianism, transsexuality, bisexuality and all the variations that exist or are not yet explored.
Another journalist murdered by hired assassins
In early hours of this day, the journalist Noel Valladares was murdered. The journalist was mortally attacked outside the television station in which he worked at, while driving a vehicle in company of his wife who resulted injured and two other companions who lost their lives.
Repression in Honduras
Honduran land rights activists have denounced threats of violence made in Rigores and Marañones by a large landholder backed by Honduran security forces, and a plan for military intervention in campesino communities.
INTERNATIONAL
May Day Protests Span the Globe with Calls for Economic Justice, International Solidarity
Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout the United States.
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL – What Obama knows
The most demolishing article I have seen recently about Latin America was written by Renán Vega Cantor, professor at the National Pedagogical University of Bogotá, which was published three days ago by the website ‘Rebelión’ under the title "Ecos de la Cumbre de las Américas" (Echoes of the Summit of the Americas).
UN Denounces Reprisals Against Palestinians in Israeli Jails
United Nations on today reported reprisals and human rights violations committed by the Israeli authorities against a thousand Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.
U.K. Reiterates Refusal to Negotiate Over The Falklands Sovereignty
London, May 2 (Prensa Latina) UK reaffirmed on Wednesday its traditional refusal to negotiate with Argentina over the Falkland Islands’ sovereignty, after considering dissappointing the diplomatic incident between the Argentinean Ambassador Alicia Castro, and the British foreign Minister, William Hague.
