27/06/2022
Press Release 14 AQUI en Español COPINH met with President Xiomara Castro in the framework of the Mobilization for Justice for Berta and the Lenca people held in the city of Tegucigalpa on June 20 and 21 of this year. The mobilization aimed to emphasize that Justice for Berta does not end with the conviction of David Castillo, but must…
28/03/2022
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL Press Release 10/2022 Last Thursday afternoon, March 24, on the program "Doble Vía" broadcast on the Radio América network, directed by journalist Rodolfo Colindres, evangelical pastor Roy Santos was a guest on the program; he referred in a derogatory, discriminatory and racist manner to the indigenous peoples of Honduras and specifically to COPINH. In his participation in…
24/03/2022
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL Press Release 09/2022 March 24, 2022 - Tomorrow, Friday, March 25, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a private working meeting to review the risk situation faced by the communities of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), as well as the representatives of the legal team and family members…
15/03/2022
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL Press Release 08-2022 This Wednesday, March 16, the hearing for the extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez will be held in the Supreme Court of Justice for being considered linked to three crimes related to drug trafficking: conspiring to import, manufacture and distribute a controlled substance (drugs); using or carrying firearms in support of the conspiracy…
14/03/2022
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL Press Release 07-2022. Roberto David Castillo Mejía, convicted as "co-perpetrator" of the murder of Berta Cáceres, seeks to benefit from Amnesty Decree 04-2022, in order to suspend the process against him for corruption in the case of Fraud on the Gualcarque. Lawyers Ritza Antunez and Juan Sánchez Cantillano filed a request, on March 8, before the Corruption…
03/03/2022
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL Anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-patriarchal. These characteristics of COPINH aren’t an end in and of themselves – they are strategy, methodology and vision for struggle. We take the intersectional and internationalist path, with and by peoples who are oppressed, discriminated, excluded and attacked. We project the re-foundation of Honduras and strengthen ourselves together with the social movements…
20/12/2021
AQUI ESPAÑOL The FMO bank of the Netherlands is sanctioned for not complying with anti-money laundering regulations and at the same time terminates all relations with the FICOHSA bank of Honduras. COPINH and the Global Justice Association (legal representative of COPINH in the Netherlands) make the following to public knowledge: The recent revelations in the Dutch newspaper FD support the…
23/08/2021
EN ESPAÑOL Before the beginning of the oral and public trial of the case called "Fraude Sobre el Gualcarque" COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) shares the following: The indigenous community of Rio Blanco, organized in COPINH, once again sees its rights violated. Now the State of Honduras denies the status of victim to those who…
09/07/2021
AQUI EN ESPAÑOL The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH makes public the following: In the midst of the trial against the convicted murderer David Castillo, co-author of the assassination of our comrade Berta Cáceres, it was made public that the FICOHSA Bank of Camilo Atala, hired a firm of lobbyists in the United States to…
