Is a World Bank Loan Funding Murders in Honduras?

Bank-funded palm oil company implicated in “death squad” killings of land-rights activists

The World Bank is facing intense pressure from human rights and environmental groups to cancel a $30 million loan to a palm oil company in Honduras that’s suspected of being involved in the murder of scores of small-scale Indigenous farmers in the…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – April 5, 2013

Killed in the Line of Duty

Violence against environmental activists isn’t limited to Latin America. In many parts of the world, beatings, death threats, and murder are a common way of settling political disputes. Since they are often challenging some of the world’s richest and most powerful industries, environmentalists become targets of abuse. These are just some of the environmental activists who have been killed in the last year. Thongnak Sawekchinda (1964 – 2011) For five years Thongnak…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – Winter 2012

The Last Song of Mario Guifarro

In early September 2007, in defiance of multiple death threats from illegal loggers who opposed their mission, a GPS mapping team made its way by motorized canoe down the Patuca River and into the remote and lawless Tawahka Asongni Biosphere Reserve of Honduras. The Tawahka is one of several linked parks and reserves in the region generally known as Moskitia, a vast swath of savannah and rainforest that takes up most of…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – Winter 2012

Fear and Voting in Honduras

A photographic essay

The worst crisis to hit Central America since the wars of the 1980’s began on June 28, 2009, when Honduran soldiers attacked the home of legal, democratically-elected president Mel Zelaya and exiled him from the country by plane, after a short stop…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – December 17, 2009

¡Golpe!

Last Summer’s Right-Wing Coup in Honduras Still Threatens Human Rights and the Environment

Jeremy Kryt photoHonduran riot police have met unarmed anti-coup protestors with beatings, chemicals, and in some cases even live rounds. The farmers had been barricaded inside the National Agricultural Institute, in the heart of downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for more than three months. There were almost a hundred of them, including women and children, sleeping in the offices and cooking on wood fires in the courtyard. When I visited, in September of 2009,…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – Winter 2010

Irate in the Caribbean

How the Honduras Coup Threatens the Hemisphere’s Largest Coral Reef

Roatan, Honduras: There’s a troubling silence beneath the palm trees of this Caribbean island paradise, and the quaint sandy streets are empty of tourists. No Jimmy Buffett or Bob Marley tunes are to be heard in the ramshackle beach bars, and many…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – November 29, 2009

Honduras: Anti-Coup Resistance Fears “Trap” for Zelaya

“A Dangerous Situation”

Jeremy Kryt photoHonduran police and soldiers stand guard in front of the National Congress building in the capital. Peaceful protestors have staged a permanent vigil since Monday morning, demanding the restitution of President Mel Zelaya. The controversial, U.S.-brokered peace accord that went…
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by: Jeremy Kryt – November 4, 2009

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