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Caribbean & Central America - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

HONDURAS: Aguán conspiracies

The tensions in the Bajo Aguán Valley continue to cost lives, but there is very little reliable detail as to who is behind the violence. The government led by President Porfirio Lobo has recently taken the line that the violence is not solely the result of a long running (15-year) conflict between landless peasants and a well-known Honduran oligarch, suggesting that drug runners and other criminal elements have a vested interest in destabilising the region, which is located in the department of Colón in the north. The authorities have used this pretext to militarise the area, with around 1,000 soldiers and police agents now on the ground locally. Their presence does have seem to be much of a deterrent, however.

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