Bosques de Honduras en guerra

by Eva Sanchis, Fall 2006 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of El Diario/La Prensa

Visitamos Olancho y otros departamentos de Honduras que han sido escenario durante los últimos seis años de un grave conflicto social, a veces armado, entro los campesinos e indígenas, y los taladores ilegales del bosque, y que ha obligado al gobierno hondureño a despachar a dos mil soldados a los bosques para evitar derramamientos de sangre entre los choques, cada vez más frequentes entre estos grupos.

Conversamos con algunos de los protagonistas del conflicto.

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We visited Olancho and other Honduran states which, for the past six years, have been the scene of serious social conflict, occasionally armed, pitting poor peasants and indigenous groups against illegal loggers, and has forced the Honduran government to dispatch two thousand soldiers to the forests to avoid the bloodshed of the increasingly frequent clashes between these groups. conflict has pitted poor peasants and indigenous groups against illegal loggers

We spoke with several of the conflict's protagonists.

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