1. The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
2. Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
3. Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
4. Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
5. The Caracas Commitment
   Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
6. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1982
   
7. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
8. Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
9. The Culture of Terrorism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
10. Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    
11. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
12. Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
13. Honduran political murder
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
14. Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
    Step by Step
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
15. Honduras Bleeding
    The Coup and Its Aftermath
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
16. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
17. Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
18. How many more
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
19. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
20. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
    Forests and trees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
22. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
23. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
24. Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
25. Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
26. "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
27. They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
28. The Victory for Workers' Rights in Honduras
    Against The Current vol. 147
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Progressive followers of politics in Honduras have had little to celebrate recently. The June 28, 2009 coup that toppled president Mel Zelaya — a democratically elected reformer, though never the radical populist depicted by the mainstream media — was a terrible blow to democracy, echoing the worst chapters of Central America’s dark history.
29. What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.

Experts on Honduras in the Sources Directory

1. Association of Caribbean States
2. Central American Integration System
3. Latin American Economic System
4. Latin American Parliament
5. Organization of American States
6. United Nations