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May 18, 2013
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Radio Progresso reports that 4 hours after security guards killed 3 campesinos from MOCSAM who were in the process of recuperating land from, their bodies are still lying where they were shot. No medical forensic team has shown up to investigate the killings nor to remove the bodies.
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May 12, 2013
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abUSed: The Postville Raid, the documentary by award-winning director, Luis Argueta, will have its Iowa PBS Premiere and its second national broadcast on America Reframed on May 12, 2013. This broadcast will commemorate the 5th anniversary of the devastating immigration raid on a meatpacking plant in the Heartland of America. America ReFramed airs on the WORLD Channel. This broadcast includes the director's cut version and an exclusive interview with Luis Argueta by Natasha del Toro, and lasts 116 minutes. The broadcast times are:
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Apr 29, 2013
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The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
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Apr 25, 2013
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National and international media gathered in the Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) office for the announcement of the exhumation of human remains found in the Paso Aguán plantation, in the jurisdiction of Trujillo, Colón.
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Apr 25, 2013
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Oscar, a baby-faced 18-year-old, spends his time tinkering with an old computer at his new home in South Florida. He learned everything about computers from his dad, an electrician who opened an internet cafe in their home garage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to supplement the family's low income. After school, Oscar worked at the shop hoping to one day apply what he learned towards a career in computer engineering.
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Apr 20, 2013
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The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
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Apr 15, 2013
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In the village of Corozal in Honduras, the Garifuna population, an Afro-Caribbean people on Central America's Atlantic coast, has a very high HIV infection rate. According to CDC, 4.5 percent of this population is infected with HIV -- a rate five times as high as the country as a whole, according to the government. No nation in the Western Hemisphere has a rate that high.
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Apr 13, 2013
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In the morning on 20 March 2013, around 150 soldiers and police illegally evicted farmers organised in 15 cooperatives of ADCP (Association of Development for Farmers of El Progreso) and 14 cooperatives of CNTC (National Farmworkers Federation), who have been recovering state agrarian at Agua Blanca Sur from 16 February 2013 in El Progreso, Yoro. The eviction was illegal because the executor judge Enia Loreny Aguilera of El Progreso Court gave the eviction order, despite there being a protection appeal in process in court that stops such actions until a resolution is reached and confirmed.
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Apr 12, 2013
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Three charts to show the amount of U.S. Aid to Latin America since 1996.
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Apr 12, 2013
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Bertha Oliva is the General Coordinator of COFADEH, the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras. Bertha’s husband was "disappeared" in 1981, a period when death squads were active in Honduras.
May 18, 2013 0Radio Progresso reports that 4 hours after security guards killed 3 campesinos from MOCSAM who were in the process of recuperating land from, their bodies are still lying where they were shot. No medical forensic team has shown up to investigate the killings nor to remove the bodies.
Apr 25, 2013 0National and international media gathered in the Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) office for the announcement of the exhumation of human remains found in the Paso Aguán plantation, in the jurisdiction of Trujillo, Colón.
Apr 13, 2013 0In the morning on 20 March 2013, around 150 soldiers and police illegally evicted farmers organised in 15 cooperatives of ADCP (Association of Development for Farmers of El Progreso) and 14 cooperatives of CNTC (National Farmworkers Federation), who have been recovering state agrarian at Agua Blanca Sur from 16 February 2013 in El Progreso, Yoro. The eviction was illegal because the executor judge Enia Loreny Aguilera of El Progreso Court gave the eviction order, despite there being a protection appeal in process in court that stops such actions until a resolution is reached and confirmed.
Apr 12, 2013 0Three charts to show the amount of U.S. Aid to Latin America since 1996.