The Depths of Hell in Honduras: Honduran Collapse, Mining and Organized Crime
The Depths of Hell in Honduras: Honduran Collapse, Mining and Organized Crime
Written by OFRANEH, Translated by Rights Action
Saturday, 19 July 2014 16:24
Source: Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña
The proliferation of 'legal' and 'illegal' mines across Honduras, prior to and following the passage of the new and totally questionable Mining Law, benefits the prosperity of a minuscule group of transnational companies, organized crime and their political leaders.
The recent accident in a gold mine in San Juan de Arriba, in the village of Cuculmeca Hill (Municipality of Corpus, department of Choluteca), which trapped 11 miners, seized the attention of a country engrossed in World Cup soccer and the apocalyptical violence that a small group of traffickers of misery has subjugated all of Honduras to.
Three of the eleven miners were rescued from the informal mine's labyrinths, where another fatal mining accident killed two miners in July 2013. To add insult to injury, Mr. Juan Hernandez, current president of the country, demonstrated the executive power's irresponsibility, writing a "tweet" that announced the rescue of the 11 miners. Unfortunately, that news was false, indicating the level of the president's disconnection from reality.
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Mining had governed Honduras since colonial times; it was only in the early twentieth century that swaths of land were given to fruit companies. Unfortunately, everything seems to indicate that during the twenty-first century, the country will be devoured by transnational extractive companies and international capital, via mafias and hired killers that control political power.
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