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JOH’s luck runs out

JOH’s luck runs out

April 21, 2022

Until 27 January, Juan Orlando Hernández was president of Honduras; he’s now on his way to a high-security prison in New York, awaiting trial. On the day JOH handed power to Xiomara Castro, charges were filed against him that would lead to an extradition request from the US embassy in Tegucigalpa. He was arrested on […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Honduras, drugs

Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous Leader

Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous Leader

June 10, 2020

“They build dams and kill people.” These words, spoken by a witness when the murderers of environmental defender Berta Cáceres were brought to trial in Honduras, describe Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA), the company whose dam project Berta opposed. DESA was created in May 2009 solely to build the Agua Zarca hydroelectric scheme, using the waters […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, drugs, US intervention, Berta Cáceres, env

COVID-19 as a pretext for repression

COVID-19 as a pretext for repression

May 2, 2020

“He’s not a doctor, I don’t think.” Trump had just finished a phone call with Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), the de facto president of Honduras who runs a narco-state. On April 30, JOH was indirectly implicated in drug and murder charges by the US Justice Department in a case against a former chief police officer. This […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, drugs, US intervention, El Salvador, panama, coronavirus

12.02.2019, USA, New York: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (2.v.r) begleitet von US-Marshalls gestikulier als er den Gerichtssaal verlässt. er mexikanische Drogenboss "El Chapo" ist in seinem Strafprozess schuldig gesprochen worden. Foto: Elizabeth Williams/AP/dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++

The Hernández Brothers

October 23, 2019

Donald Trump said last year that migrant caravans, mainly of Hondurans, were coming to the US from ‘shithole countries’. But now he says that the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, is doing a ‘fantastic job’. Trump and JOH recently reached an agreement declaring Honduras to be a ‘safe place’ for asylum seekers trying to reach the US. […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Honduras, drugs

The worst journey in the Americas

The worst journey in the Americas

June 28, 2017

A review of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez Living in Nicaragua, I regularly meet people who have migrated or want to migrate to neighbouring countries. I’ve also met people who take their chances going to Spain without a visa (including one who claimed to be […]

Category: Migration, Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, drugs, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, El Salvador

A year after Berta’s murder

A year after Berta’s murder

March 3, 2017

One year ago, Berta Cáceres was asleep in bed in La Esperanza, Honduras, when gunmen burst into the house and shot her. She died in the arms of Gustavo Castro, a Mexican environmental activist who was injured but pretended to be dead until the murderers had gone. Instead of being treated as a victim, Castro […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, drugs, US intervention, mining, Berta Cáceres

March of the torch-bearers, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo: AP/Fernando Antonio.

Ten days in Honduras

July 1, 2015

Ten days in Honduras: a TV reporter and a cameraman, a radio reporter, a trade union leader, the head of an indigenous community fighting forest destruction, two transsexual activists, two bodyguards of the director of the agrarian reform institute and a lawyer were all murdered. The daily political killings are rarely investigated. Even if they […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: drugs, US intervention, Honduras

Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb in Kill the Messenger

Kill the messenger

March 6, 2015

In January 1983, police in Los Angeles arrested frogmen bringing 400 pounds of cocaine ashore from a Colombian freighter. But they missed their main target, the drug importer Norwin Meneses, who may have been tipped off by officials. In August 1986, a US Customs informant, Joseph Kelso, told his handlers that Drug Enforcement Administration officials […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, drugs, US intervention

Drugs policies don’t work

July 2, 2012

Latin America’s political leaders are beginning to realise that the drugs ‘war’ is unwinnable and diverts enormous resources to a task that would be pointless if consumption were regulated like tobacco or alcohol.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, drugs

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