TegucigalpaHundreds of Garífuna camp outside Honduras’ Supreme Court.
Five Garífuna face usurpation charges for ancestral land, after San Juan’s violent eviction on 6 July.
Drug traffickers use Garífuna land as cocaine corridors, and businessmen want it for palm plantations and hotels, community leaders say.
“We live in permanent danger because of organized crime,” said Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Garífuna group OFRANEH.
A local court now holds the case against the 5, which an organized crime tribunal sent back.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime leans critical
- frames the Garífuna camp as a living community at the Supreme Court, and the prosecution as a bitter irony for a people long targeted by organised crime
Sources: InSight Crime