Miriam Miranda, the general coordinator of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), was shocked in the early morning of September 19 when four armed men entered her home in the Garífuna community of Vallecito, Colón. Fortunately, because of the presence of the bodyguards assigned to Miriam under the government's Protection Mechanism, the armed men did…
LA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) is a feature length documentary that combines breathtaking cinematography with intimate access and creative storytelling as it follows COPINH and OFRANEH, two grassroots Indigenous and Black organizations leading the struggle for justice in Honduras. The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), co-founded by the assassinated leader Berta Cáceres, works with the Lenca Indigneous peoples of the mountains in the interior of Honduras. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) is the black people's social movement along the lush coast of Honduras led by Miriam Miranda. Together these groups are holding down the frontlines of resistance in the face of the US-backed military dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez as they work to dismantle interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and racism.
COPINH and OFRANEH are the resistance. They are the water. They are the land itself. Bullets can
Honduran authorities have ordered the exhumation of the body of a land defender who died under unclear circumstances near the country’s Caribbean coast