{"id":56176,"date":"2020-12-26T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2020-12-26T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:32:11","slug":"no-holiday-for-honduran-anti-mining-activists-fighting-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56176","title":{"rendered":"No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/12\/25\/no-holiday-for-honduran-anti-mining-activists-fighting-for-freedom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_26832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26832\" src=\"https:\/\/149356667.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Honduras-water-protector-protest2-300x225.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/149356667.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Honduras-water-protector-protest2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/149356667.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Honduras-water-protector-protest2.jpg 720w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26832\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-26832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest outside Tocoa courthouse, Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each been jailed for up to two years for participating in a struggle to keep iron ore mining out of the headwaters of the rivers they depend on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the start of a new stage of struggle, a stage of unity and we are not going to stay at home,\u201d said Juana Z\u00faniga, the wife of one of the eight imprisoned water protectors, during a December 21\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/810956912625098\/videos\/928733761222632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a>, \u201cThe joy of spending Christmas with family has been taken away from us, but we will nonetheless continue fighting. We will continue struggling for the freedom of our\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eros.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa in northern Honduras were illegally jailed for defending the Carlos Escaleras National Park and the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers against the threat of a mining project owned by Honduran company Inversiones Los Pinares. In October 2019, recognizing the importance of their struggle, the Institute for Policy Studies awarded the Committee with the international\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/celebrating-environmental-defenders-at-the-letelier-moffitt-human-rights-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, Jos\u00e9 Abelino Cedillo, Orbin Na\u00fan Hern\u00e1ndez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, Arnol Javier Aleman, Ewer Alexander Cedillo, and Daniel M\u00e1rquez have spent 15 months in preventive detention since September 2019. Another Committee member, Jerem\u00edas Mart\u00ednez D\u00edaz, has been in the same situation for two years, since December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom Protest outside Tocoa courthouse, Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa. For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[30767,5493,3750,30768,657],"class_list":["post-56176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-anit-mining-protests","tag-counterpunch","tag-honduras","tag-jen-moore","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions\/56177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}