Drug Traffickers and State Pressure Stall Garífuna Land Fight

Published on Honduras Daily · Oct 3, 2026 · Originally reported October 2, 2026 by InSight Crime

Garífuna communities on Honduras's Caribbean coast fighting to reclaim ancestral land face intimidation from drug traffickers and organized-crime charges from the state, two years after a 2024 government land-demarcation mission was abandoned under threats.

Opens the original article at InSight Crime — published in English. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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