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News and Analysis

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April 25, 2013 Trujillo, Colón.   The remains of a peasant farmer who had been disappeared since April 2012, were exhumed this Thursday by members  of the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala and national forensic medical examiners, from a clandestine grave...
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SEATTLE (CNS) -- A priest from Honduras says the United States is repeating the same errors in Central America as it did in the 1980s, and his country is suffering as a result.    Jesuit Father Ismael Moreno, who directs Radio Progreso, a feisty activist station on the Caribbean...
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According to official records, there were 54 murders in Honduras on Christmas Eve. With a violent death every 74 minutes, a rate that more than doubled over Christmas, the country is four times more dangerous than Mexico. In 2012, 7172 murders were recorded.   That&rs
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Honduras is the homicide capital of the world (.pdf). This is due in part to widespread and growing gang violence, but recently there have been reports that Honduran police themselves are organizing death squads.
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AP just released a very interesting story which includes substantial material on Honduras.  Here is the link:
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This morning a press conference was held at COFADEH to announce that exhumations will take place in the Aguan this week. Please see attached Communiqué in English and Spanish - as well as this article on thedefensores en linea web site: 
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Just days ago, Friendship Office staff accompanied Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of the Committee of the Families of the Disappeared and Detained of Honduras, COFADEH,   to Washington, D.C.  She gave testimony at the Inter American Commission on...
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On March 22, Rep. Sam Farr sent this recent AP article about death squads out as a Dear Colleague letter:
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Honduras: The War on Peasants Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous leaders to over 60 since the Honduran coup d'etat in 2009.  
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In December in 2012, we teamed with the Sister of Mercy to take a delegation of U.S.