Tag: Honduras

La Moskitia, Honduras
Eco-Cultural-Travel

Blessing for La Moskitia, A Culture and Land in Transition

Historically a roadless fishing port with little development nor electricity, Puerto Lempira has transformed into a boom-town, host to drug traffickers, nearby military bases, and oil and gas development. In an effort to overcome this adversity, we participated in a blessing for the people and their land and culture in transition, directed by a local Miskitu sukya, or healer, and members of the community.

La Moskitia, Honduran election, Xiomara
Political Geography

Honduran Election: Neoliberal Militarization Versus The People

Military and judicial violence against the public and in post-coup Honduras leading up to the coming November elections are central components of the neoliberal economic takeover. In order to legitimate and secure the economic violence effected against Honduran citizens by multinational corporations, the judiciary criminalizes opposition to them while the military (along with other state security forces) goes after citizen-“criminals” with an iron fist.

Caribbean Sea, Miskitu Indians, La Moskitia, Honduras
Eco-Cultural-Travel

Miskitu Coast of Honduras: Harvesting Jellyfish at the Rio Kruta

On a recent trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Honduran Caribbean and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. Yet, drug trafficking is changing the economy and the culture of the Miskitu People, and due to overfishing, local people can only turn to harvesting jellyfish for China as an honest source of revenue.