#centralamerican — Public Fediverse posts
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Anyone living in the #SanFrancisco #BayArea should find "Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978" an interesting #read. It covers #SocialMovements that flowered thanks to the #Sixties: chapters on #Black, #CentralAmerican, & #Asian power movements, antiwar, #LGBT, #environmentalism, countercultural, food+farming, #feminism, underground #comix, murals, #labor, etc. Jam-packed with details about crucial, but largely forgotten moments.
https://www.foundsf.org/Category:Ten_Years_That_Shook_the_City
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. #Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his #CentralAmerican country.
By Santul NerkarAnnie Correal and Colin Moynihan
Nov. 29, 2025, 7:16 p.m. ETfrom #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow #cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of #JuanOrlandoHernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained #Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for #cartels...
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. #Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his #CentralAmerican country.
By Santul NerkarAnnie Correal and Colin Moynihan
Nov. 29, 2025, 7:16 p.m. ETfrom #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow #cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of #JuanOrlandoHernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained #Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for #cartels...
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Time for #Ecuadoran - #CentralAmerican #history of the #sweetpotato 🥔
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250913232938.htm
Not to mention #Darwin and "#insipid" #Chiloé #potato my take here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/07/10/the-plight-and-blight-of-darwins-humble-potato/ #Climate #climatechange #nutrition #science #evolution #foodjustice #FoodInsecurity -
Time for #Ecuadoran - #CentralAmerican #history of the #sweetpotato 🥔
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250913232938.htm
Not to mention #Darwin and "#insipid" #Chiloé #potato my take here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/07/10/the-plight-and-blight-of-darwins-humble-potato/ #Climate #climatechange #nutrition #science #evolution #foodjustice #FoodInsecurity -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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#MissGayCostaRica #Crowned championing #LGBTQ #Rights.
Wearing a light blue semi-transparent dress and a diamond necklace, #DesiréStregoni was #crowned Miss Gay Costa Rica this Thursday and will represent the country at the #CentralAmerican level in November in #ElSalvador to raise #awareness about “the #art of being a #dragqueen.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #CentralAmerica #CostaRica #ElSalvador #Representation #Culture
https://ticotimes.net/2024/09/13/miss-gay-costa-rica-crowned-championing-lgbtq-rights
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#MissGayCostaRica #Crowned championing #LGBTQ #Rights.
Wearing a light blue semi-transparent dress and a diamond necklace, #DesiréStregoni was #crowned Miss Gay Costa Rica this Thursday and will represent the country at the #CentralAmerican level in November in #ElSalvador to raise #awareness about “the #art of being a #dragqueen.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #CentralAmerica #CostaRica #ElSalvador #Representation #Culture
https://ticotimes.net/2024/09/13/miss-gay-costa-rica-crowned-championing-lgbtq-rights
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Atitlan Organics is built on the belief that humans are good for the planet and that humans have a unique ecological function that, when performed, enhances and diversifies the ecosystems they interact with.
Learn more about the agroecological practices that take place at Atitlan Organics Farm
https://agroecologymap.org/locations/atitlan-organics-farm
#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #permaculture #permacultura #agroforestry #agrofloresta #ecological #farm #organic #guatemala #centralamerican
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Atitlan Organics is built on the belief that humans are good for the planet and that humans have a unique ecological function that, when performed, enhances and diversifies the ecosystems they interact with.
Learn more about the agroecological practices that take place at Atitlan Organics Farm
https://agroecologymap.org/locations/atitlan-organics-farm
#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #permaculture #permacultura #agroforestry #agrofloresta #ecological #farm #organic #guatemala #centralamerican
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Comunidad de Cantagallo has a farm that is an agroecological school for small producers. The idea is to prompt agroecological technology around communities of the farm.
Find out more at https://onemillionvoices.agroecologymap.org/locations/comunidad-de-cantagallo
#agroecology #permaculture #agroforestry #environment #sustainability #foodsovereignty #forestry #food #organic #nicaragua #centralamerican
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Hi!! Here’s my #Introduction post:
I’m a #CentralAmerican #Asian #Latina born and raised in Honduras 🇭🇳 35 years old, currently living in Richmond, Kentucky, I live with my husband and my cat 🐈 #catlover
I’m #Army #Carat #Moa #Luné My biases are V from BTS, Hoshi from SVT and Beomgyu from TXT, and Yuma from &TEAM.
I love #Languages I speak three #Span #Portuguese #english and currently learning #Korean.
Borahae 💜 -
Hi!! Here’s my #Introduction post:
I’m a #CentralAmerican #Asian #Latina born and raised in Honduras 🇭🇳 35 years old, currently living in Richmond, Kentucky, I live with my husband and my cat 🐈 #catlover
I’m #Army #Carat #Moa #Luné My biases are V from BTS, Hoshi from SVT and Beomgyu from TXT, and Yuma from &TEAM.
I love #Languages I speak three #Span #Portuguese #english and currently learning #Korean.
Borahae 💜 -
Finca Agroecologica La Flor aims to regenerate forests and cultivate organic and medicinal gardens using the principles of Agroecology #CostaRica #CentralAmerican #Agroecology #Permaculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Wellness #Agroecologia #Permaculture
https://agroecologymap.org/locations/finca-agroecologica-la-flor
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Trump's special envoy to #Venezuela is #ElliottAbrams, the Cold Warrior who championed #CentralAmerican dictators and death squads. Tell the @HolocaustMuseum to stop legitimizing Abrams' bloody legacy: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/elliott-abrams via @CREDOMobile #politics #USofA #StopDrUMPf