Environmental Justice

Jeannette Kawas, the Tela activist murdered in 1995 for opposing illegal development of the Punta Sal peninsula, is remembered through the national park bearing her name—though no one has been arrested for her killing despite a 2009 Inter-American Court ruling against Honduras for negligence.

Communities in Choluteca and Valle say a decade of foreign-financed solar projects has destroyed forests, contaminated water sources, and displaced fishing and farming, yielding only six permanent jobs while Congress debates an electrical-industry law expected to favor private energy companies further.