Webinar with Honduran Leader to Commemorate 4 Year Coup Anniversary

The Fight for Life and Land in the Aguan Valley

featuring Juan Lorenzo Cruz,
leader of the campesino movement in the Aguan Valley, Honduras
Wednesday June 26, 2013
8:30 PM EST (5:30pm PST, 7:30pm CT)

Don Lorenzo is a campesino Leader from the Honduran Aguan Valley currently living in El Salvador as a political refugee. Don Lorenzo is one of the founders of the MCA-Campesino Movement of the Aguan and the community of Guadalupe Carney, and served as the Secretary General of the MUCA-The United Campesino Movement of the Aguan. Don Lorenzo survived an assassination attempt in 2009 and fled to El Salvador. In 2012 Don Lorenzo returned to the Aguan but continued death threats have forced him to return to El Salavdor. In El Salvador, Don Lorenzo has been working with the Movement of Popular Resistance on community organizing and to engage the Salvadoran social movement in solidarity efforts with Honduras.

The Aguan Valley of Honduras has become ground zero in the struggle for land and agrarian reform in which small scale farming cooperatives are being threatened by the wealthy oligarchs of the country. This land conflict has exploded in violence since the 2009 coup unleashed a wave of political repression and impunity across the country. Since the coup, 104 campesinos have been assassinated in the Aguan Valley by paramilitaries and armed guards of the large landholding oligarchs. Police and military have also been implicated in extra-judicial killings, threats, disappearances and illegal evictions. In March of 2012, 94 members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton condemning human rights abuses in the Aguan Valley of Honduras.

Join us to hear Don Lorenzo’s story and learn about the campesino struggle of the Aguan Valley Honduras. We will also discuss what people can do to stand for the respect of human rights and land rights in Honduras.

The Webinar will be in Spanish and English. Suggested donation is $10, but all are welcome. All you need is Internet access and/or a phone line to access the webinar. We will send instructions on how to enter the webinar once you have registered.

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