In 2011, the post-coup Honduran regime held an economic conference called ‘Honduras is Open for Business’ to attract foreign investment. The slogan ‘Honduras is Open for Business’, widely propagated by the post-coup regime, resulted directly in creating ‘favorable’ conditions for foreign (U.S. and Canadian) companies interested in mining, tourism, energy generation, social services, highway construction and infrastructure, and other industries.
But as President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014) and Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) (2014-2022) opened the country up to foreign businesses, they were also opening Honduras to drug trafficking and joined forces with drug cartels.
The consequences were deadly. As Honduras was ‘open for licit and illicit business’, land and water defenders were murdered, pro-democracy defenders were imprisoned, Afro-indigenous and indigenous communities were displaced from their lands, and hundreds of thousands of Hondurans were forced into exile, fleeing for their lives.
Watch this short clip from ‘Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley‘ and stay tuned for more about how U.S. and Canadian companies benefitted from doing business with the Honduran narco-state and drug traffickers mentioned in JOH’s trial in New York.
To follow and support the campaign
We are campaigning to hold the U.S. and Canada responsible for supporting the Honduran narco-state as former President Juan Orlando Hernández & police officers go to trial in New York on February 2024 (pending any further date changes).
- Read Update #1: U.S. and Canadian support for the coup: Creating the conditions for the construction of a narco-state.
- Read Update #2: Trial date change. The campaign continues.
- Read Update #3: “The U.S. government’s go-to man on the war on drug trafficking” pleads guilty to drug trafficking
- Read Update #4: The U.S. and Canada Supported Three Contested and Fraudulent Elections (2009, 2013, 2017).
- Read Update #5: Live from New York.
- Read Update #6: The U.S. Government is Blocking the Use of Classified Information Outlining U.S. Relations with JOH and the Narco-state.
- Read Update #7: The Trial Against Juan Orlando Hernández Finally Starts in New York
- Read Update #8: Testimony in Trial Shows How U.S. and Canada Ignored Warnings of 2013 Drug Violence.
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