One of the most repressive and violent regions of Honduras, since the 2009 coup, is the Lower Aguan river region of northern Honduras, where the country’s largest and wealthiest land-owner, Miguel Facusse (also a direct supporter of the 2009 military coup), is using extreme levels of repression – often supported by the military and police – to forcibly and illegally evict campesino communities from their lands, so as to increase his cultivation of African Palm trees and sugar-cane for the production and sale of “green energy” (bio-diesel and ethanol fuels) to global energy markets. Over 80 campesinos have been assassinated in this region alone.
This short film by Alba sud and Rel-UITA will introduce you to this ongoing land conflict, in Bajo Aguán, Honduras.
John Ahniwanika Schertow is an indigenous rights activist of Mohawk (Kanienkehaka) and mixed-European descent. For the past 8 years, he has served as the e... 
When the US abandoned any pretense at pursuing democratic values, opting instead for an economy based solely on exporting violence and fraud, the window of opportunity for democratic reform in Latin America rapidly closed. As Upside Down World reports, the 2009 US-backed coup in Honduras http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/3641-honduras-a-violence-repression-and-impunity-capital-of-the-world has set in motion a replay of President Reagan’s murderous meddling in Central America, while Plan Colombia http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3646-united-states-sends-combat-commanders-to-colombia and the reintroduction of U.S. military bases in Chile and Argentina http://upsidedownworld.org/main/chile-archives-34/3636-chile-human-rights-activists-protest-new-us-base preclude even neoliberal independence in South America. As President Obama seeks to emulate and maybe even surpass the ruthlessness of his mentor President Reagan, democracies and democratic movements in the Western hemisphere are no more immune to U.S. military aggression and economic subversion than are Central Asia or the Middle East.
Unfortunately Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the world, and undoubtedly its most violent region has great issues and human rights violations and murderers of campesinos.
The only problem is to associate this human rights violations and killings with the change of government that happened in 2009. The fact that this wealthy land-owner supported the change of government does not directly means that the process in 2009 was a coup, or even US sponsored. The majority of Honduran population supported the decision from the Supreme Court which was only following the Constitution. Therefore, avoid calling it a coup, or a military coup and associating it with the violence that land-owners are causing.