2014 JULY: MUFRAS ( EL Salvador )Training to protect water resources US$1450
Approved 2014, delivered 2015 JAN : CMO ( Nicaragua ) Cooking Stoves US$4392
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Newsletter 62: November 2014
This edition of the ENCA newsletter asks ‘where are workers rights?’ Banana Link reports on how Guatemala is the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Pablo Rojas in and Didier Leitón Valverde discuss how pesticides in Costa Rica’s banana zones are seriously affecting pregnant women.
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Newsletter 61: August 2014
In this edition Jason Searing examines the dangers faced by conservationists in Central America, we have more on Infinito Gold’s lawsuit against the Costa Rican government over a cancelled gold mining contract, along side updates on actions by Pacific Rim and Tahoe Resources and the San Juan de Arriba mine collapse in Honduras.
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Newsletter 60: March 2014
In this edition Tim Volkmann examines the issues of oil and gas exploration in Central America. Amy Haworth Johns takes a look at the links between drug trafficking and deforestation, and Doug Specht gives a roundup of the regions elections. This issue also contains a report by Martin Mowforth on some of our partner organisations in Central America, and an update on the El Gran Canal, along with much more!
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Donations granted: 2013
OFRANEH (Fraternal Black Honduran Org.) Garifuna Community – Radio repairs: 10096,60 Honduran Lempira/ GB£335.00
Train Fares for Dina Meza Honduran Journalist to attend ENCA meetings (reported in ENCA 58): GB£160.00
Train Fare for Norvis Vasques (of Miraflor, ENCA partner in Nicaragua) to attend ENCA meeting: GB£26.00
MUFRAS Francisco Sanchez United Movement-32, El Salvador – publicity materials for campaigns against mining: US$300/ GB£198.00
Consejo de Mujeres de Occidente (CMO), Nicaragua – cooking stove project II: US$1005/ GB£660.00
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Newsletter 59: October 2013
In this edition Amy Haworth Johns explores the real cost of the Trans-Atlantic Canal and we hear more from James Watson on his flightless adventure visiting ENCA’s projects across Central America. Our friends at PROAH give an overview of the situation fced by opponents of the Agua Zarca Dam in Honduras and Doug Specht brings us more Mining News.
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A Short Goodbye and Thank You
I hope that my blog, or at least some parts of it, has been interesting to those who’ve read it! Travelling as a sponsored journey for ENCA – with an overall purpose of avoiding planes and with this blog to record the most interesting parts – has for me made the whole year a lot more interesting, and given it a sense of purpose.
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Final Photo Album – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and HOME!
It’s been a while since I put any albums on the internet. Here is the final article of my blog, a selection of photos of my trip from Mexico, back through Guatemala and Honduras to Nicaragua, and then the last bits of my journey home to England.
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Further into Honduras – The Diversity of Struggle in a Troubled Country
It has been some time since I last wrote the last article of this blog, and my year travelling is now coming to an end. I’m now back on dry land in Europe, after another (excellent) 2 week journey back by cargo ship from Central America.
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Honduras – The Attempt to Criminalise Indigenous and Human Rights leader Berta Cáceres, COPINH
After two weeks with the Zapatista indigenous rebels in Southern Mexico (see the last article – here), I then had a week’s rest being a tourist in Guatemala, before arriving in Honduras. There, as an ENCA representative, I was able to visit several environmental and social justice organisations working in a country wracked by violence and political repression since the military coup of 2009.
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