COPINH is the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras – an indigenous organisation dedicated to fighting for indigenous rights in the west of the country. Honduras still has several indigenous groups, with their own communities and cultures, related to the Mayan’s whose impressive ancient cities are familiar icons of Mesoamerica.
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ENCA member James Watson reports from a month with COPINH, Honduras
Since a military coup in 2009, Honduras has become one of the most repressive nations in Latin America. The Honduran “oligarchy” of rich landowning families has spread its power through the corrupted government, and the country has seen increasing militarisation in order to cement their control.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am just leaving Mexico after two months here, and on now on my way back to Guatemala, from where I will head further into Central America for the last two months of my trip. In Mexico I spent one month as a tourist heading around Cancun and the Yucatan Peninsular, and then up through the key state capitals of Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City.
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Back in January I visited El Salvador to deliver an ENCA donation of US$500 for emergency office expenses to the Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (“IPES”, by its Spanish initials). I dropped the money off at their office in the beautiful colonial town of Suchitito, but then they were kind enough to invite me to spend a day and night on their Demonstration Centre a little further into the countryside.
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