Kari Lydersen: Honduuras charts plan for private 'model' cities

2013-02-16 · first published in marxsite · 139 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Upside Down World via In These Times

Santos Cruz is a national campesino leader in Honduras who has spent practically his entire life fighting for land and human rights. He struggles for the ability of families like his own to simply make a living from small-scale subsistence farming in the impoverished and violence-plagued Central American country.

Over the years he has seen plenty of repression and atrocities, including a steady drumbeat of murders of campesino activists. But in the past year things have gotten worse than ever, Cruz told In These Times during a recent interview. He and other campesino, labor and indigenous leaders receive death threats on a regular basis.

In Honduras, political assassinations in broad daylight are common and rarely investigated. “Since the coup it is a broken state,” Cruz says. “The powerful make their own laws.”