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  • The traditional method of clearing land by controlled burning is now looked down upon. Current best practice is never leaving the soil unprotected, and mulching instead of burning.
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  • Protestors face off with soldiers in Comayagüela at a burning barricade of tyres as the soldiers prepare to remove the tyres from the road. The protestor in the foreground is covered in soot from the fires.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Police remove burning tyres from a blockade in El Hato neighbourhood. Protests against the government of Juan Orlando Hernandez spread across the country last night.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190128_11...jpg
  • Protestors in Olancho are seen holding the Honduran flag in between plumes of black smoke rising from a burning barricade. <br />
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Protests have been repressed with live fire from the armed forces and according to Human Rights group COFADEH some 40 people have been killed across the country.
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  • A flag of the right-wing ARENA party was burned by FMLN supporters in the street as the election results were expected
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  • Protestors in Choluteca set fire to a local TV station in protest at coverage of the elections favouring the National Party candidate Juan Orlando Hernández, despite widely reported irregularities and fraud.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171219_5...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • 'Fuera JOH', is a popular slogan for Juan Orlando Hernandez, the de-facto President, to resign. You can see it written across this picture.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190127_61...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • Some of the riot police were wearing Israeli-made military equipment, and carrying Israeli-made weapons. It is said that many officials are trained as well as equipped by Israel under agreements with the Honduran government. Honduras recently ordered a large military craft to be built in Israel, and has been one of a very small number of countries to vote with Israel on Jerusalem being the Israeli capital.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190128_13...jpg
  • Burning barricades on the street in Comayagüela during protests against electoral fraud
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Manuel Lopez walks over a neighbour's ground that has been burned. Agricultural advisors in a programme supported by CWS are encouraging more sustainable methods of weed control, that prevent erosion of slopes.
    honduras_hawkey_20110615_414.jpg
  • On the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a Vigil for the Climate was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UNFCCC and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the Peruvian Minister for the Environment and President of the UN meeting, spoke to the crowd and a symbolic lighting of candles began the celebration that marks the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world in the Fast for the Climate.
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  • A photojournalist, in a ballistic helmet and gasmask, stands next to a lamppost to avoid being hit by teargas cannisters. Teargas works in contact with moisture, so as it goes into your nostrils, eyes or mouth is starts burning. But also as you sweat it burns. Even having a shower afterwards is painful. Several people were immobilised and screaming with it, as well as a couple of people who'd passed out, overcome by it. There have been cases of babies and elderly people being killed by it.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190127_10...jpg
  • Rolando Herrera <br />
<br />
My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
<br />
In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
<br />
Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
<br />
To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
<br />
Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
<br />
So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_53...jpg
  • a protestor strikes a match to light a burning barricade in the Kennedy neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa in demonstrations against the government.
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  • A row of soldiers confront protestors in clouds of smoke from burning tyres on barricades. The protestors sang the national anthem of Honduras during the protest was against electoral fraud by the Nationalist Party.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • A row of soldiers confront protestors in clouds of smoke from burning tyres on barricades. The protest was against electoral fraud by the Nationalist Party.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Honduran Army begin to move a burning barricade on the outskirts of the capital Tegucigalpa.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Ubiratã de Souza Dias, or Bira, speaks about the movement of people affected by dams in the São Paulo region.<br />
<br />
The Ribeira de Iguape is the largest river in São Paulo State, 470kms long and is unusual in the region because it has no dams on it, but dams are planned here. Organised opposition to the dams has stopped a dam being built at Tijuco Alto already, and is actively opposed to the building of another three proposed dams in the area.<br />
<br />
The Movement by People Affected by Dams, (Movimento dos Atingidos por Baragems, MAB) says that the construction of dams and the flooding of valleys forces the displacement of people particularly indigenous groups and quilombolos (members of the 5,000+ historical rural communities begun by escaped slaves) and destoys livelihoods. Many of those most affected are indigenous people, quilombolos, poor farmers, landless workers, fishermen, who are not consulted, yet their lives are affected or their livelihoods ruiined by dams.<br />
<br />
Because of climate change we have an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and floods, and new records are being set for heavy rainfall, We can get so much rain that dams can collapse. Disasters are quite rare because  flood gates can be opened, but opening floodgates also causes flooding, it can cause damage and destruction of building and towns and crops, it can ruin livelihoods and kill people. In São Paulo state, because of heavy rainfall, floodgates were recently opened on nearby Capivari river at the UHE Perigot de Souza dam, flooding Eldorado and other towns. The company that owns the dam (Copel - Companhia Paranaense de Energia)  denies responsability for the damages.<br />
<br />
Sustainable renewable energy is preferable to emission-creating fossil fuel burning, but the human, cultural and environmental cost of giant hydroelectric projects is high and needs to be considered much more carefully. Successive governments in Brazil have made decisions to hand over land to privately-owned energy companies, an
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170913_041.jpg
  • Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5352.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_493.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_461.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_452.jpg
  • A row of soldiers confront protestors in clouds of smoke from burning tyres on barricades. The protestors sang the national anthem of Honduras during the protest was against electoral fraud by the Nationalist Party.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Honduran Army begin to move a burning barricade on the outskirts of the capital Tegucigalpa.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Clouds of smoke from burning tyres in the sky over the dump. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_575.jpg
  • thick smoke from burning tyres on a barricade is blown across a street in Comayagüela, Honduras
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • Soldiers march towards a burning barricade in the capital Tegucigalpa
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • A man wears a skull mask in front of burning effigies during May 1st march and demonstration in San Salvador
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  • Ubiratã de Souza Dias, right, show on a map where planned and existing dams are on local rivers.<br />
<br />
The Ribeira de Iguape is the largest river in São Paulo State, 470kms long and is unusual in the region because it has no dams on it, but dams are planned here. Organised opposition to the dams has stopped a dam being built at Tijuco Alto already, and is actively opposed to the building of another three proposed dams in the area.<br />
<br />
The Movement by People Affected by Dams, (Movimento dos Atingidos por Baragems, MAB) says that the construction of dams and the flooding of valleys forces the displacement of people particularly indigenous groups and quilombolos (members of the 5,000+ historical rural communities begun by escaped slaves) and destoys livelihoods. Many of those most affected are indigenous people, quilombolos, poor farmers, landless workers, fishermen, who are not consulted, yet their lives are affected or their livelihoods ruiined by dams.<br />
<br />
Because of climate change we have an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and floods, and new records are being set for heavy rainfall, We can get so much rain that dams can collapse. Disasters are quite rare because  flood gates can be opened, but opening floodgates also causes flooding, it can cause damage and destruction of building and towns and crops, it can ruin livelihoods and kill people. In São Paulo state, because of heavy rainfall, floodgates were recently opened on nearby Capivari river at the UHE Perigot de Souza dam, flooding Eldorado and other towns. The company that owns the dam (Copel - Companhia Paranaense de Energia)  denies responsability for the damages.<br />
<br />
Sustainable renewable energy is preferable to emission-creating fossil fuel burning, but the human, cultural and environmental cost of giant hydroelectric projects is high and needs to be considered much more carefully. Successive governments in Brazil have made decisions to hand over land to privately-owned energy companies, and their main m
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170913_073.jpg
  • Fishing boats at Registro, São Paulo, Brazil. The Ribeira de Iguape is the largest river in São Paulo State, 470kms long and is unusual in the region because it has no dams on it, but dams are planned here. Organised opposition to the dams has stopped a dam being built at Tijuco Alto already, and is actively opposed to the building of another three proposed dams in the area.<br />
<br />
The Movement by People Affected by Dams, (Movimento dos Atingidos por Baragems, MAB) says that the construction of dams and the flooding of valleys forces the displacement of people particularly indigenous groups and quilombolos (members of the 5,000+ historical rural communities begun by escaped slaves) and destoys livelihoods. Many of those most affected are indigenous people, quilombolos, poor farmers, landless workers, fishermen, who are not consulted, yet their lives are affected or their livelihoods ruiined by dams.<br />
<br />
Because of climate change we have an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and floods, and new records are being set for heavy rainfall, We can get so much rain that dams can collapse. Disasters are quite rare because  flood gates can be opened, but opening floodgates also causes flooding, it can cause damage and destruction of building and towns and crops, it can ruin livelihoods and kill people. In São Paulo state, because of heavy rainfall, floodgates were recently opened on nearby Capivari river at the UHE Perigot de Souza dam, flooding Eldorado and other towns. The company that owns the dam (Copel - Companhia Paranaense de Energia)  denies responsability for the damages.<br />
<br />
Sustainable renewable energy is preferable to emission-creating fossil fuel burning, but the human, cultural and environmental cost of giant hydroelectric projects is high and needs to be considered much more carefully. Successive governments in Brazil have made decisions to hand over land to privately-owned energy companies, and their main motivation is profit, not the wellbeing of Brazilian
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170913_007.jpg
  • Under the bridge in Registro, São Paulo, Brazil. The Ribeira de Iguape is the largest river in São Paulo State, 470kms long and is unusual in the region because it has no dams on it, but dams are planned here. Organised opposition to the dams has stopped a dam being built at Tijuco Alto already, and is actively opposed to the building of another three proposed dams in the area.<br />
<br />
The Movement by People Affected by Dams, (Movimento dos Atingidos por Baragems, MAB) says that the construction of dams and the flooding of valleys forces the displacement of people particularly indigenous groups and quilombolos (members of the 5,000+ historical rural communities begun by escaped slaves) and destoys livelihoods. Many of those most affected are indigenous people, quilombolos, poor farmers, landless workers, fishermen, who are not consulted, yet their lives are affected or their livelihoods ruiined by dams.<br />
<br />
Because of climate change we have an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and floods, and new records are being set for heavy rainfall, We can get so much rain that dams can collapse. Disasters are quite rare because  flood gates can be opened, but opening floodgates also causes flooding, it can cause damage and destruction of building and towns and crops, it can ruin livelihoods and kill people. In São Paulo state, because of heavy rainfall, floodgates were recently opened on nearby Capivari river at the UHE Perigot de Souza dam, flooding Eldorado and other towns. The company that owns the dam (Copel - Companhia Paranaense de Energia)  denies responsability for the damages.<br />
<br />
Sustainable renewable energy is preferable to emission-creating fossil fuel burning, but the human, cultural and environmental cost of giant hydroelectric projects is high and needs to be considered much more carefully. Successive governments in Brazil have made decisions to hand over land to privately-owned energy companies, and their main motivation is profit, not the wellbeing of Brazili
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170913_001.jpg
  • Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. Here the gold cools down. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5353.jpg
  • Alongside provisional shelters that stretch for miles outside San Pedro Sula, Diana's neighbour put up a Christmas tree and nativity scene on the roadside.<br />
<br />
The Christmas tree is a reminder that the global scientific community and faith-based groups across the world call out together for us all to take urgent action to slow climate change: to stop burning fossil fuels, and to start planting trees, a trillion trees need to be planted to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.<br />
<br />
And the nativity scene is a powerful reminder of Mary and Joseph who found no room at the inn and were forced to shelter and sleep with animals, the least suitable place imaginable for the birth of a baby. No one made room for them. We are all innkeepers today, deciding whether we have room for strangers, and whether we should help people who - like Mary and Joseph - have nowhere to go.
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  • Rosa's kitchen in Quiraguira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa is a coffee producer with the COAQUIL cooperative. On her wood-burning stove she has a kettle, a pot of beans and a pot of coffee as well as tortillas.
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  • As the result of the trial of David Cáceres is awaited at the Supreme Justice Court, for his part in the assassination of Lenca leader Berta Cáceres, Lenca and Garifuna offerings are made in the street. People carry posters that say Justicia para Berta - Justice for Berta and light candles as incense, candles and tobacco burn.
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  • A lone masked protestor stands amid traffic with two tyres ready to burn them and stones in his hands.
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  • A group of young people carried tyres to burn on a barricade in Comayagüela. Disillusionment among young people was very high. Employment opportunities are scarce, job conditions are poor, and access to university education is politicised and expensive.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171211_3...jpg
  • A woman cooks on an improved wood-burning stove in Santa Barbara, Honduras
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  • A handful of coffee parchment at UCCEI coop, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. the parchment is given to the local prison to burn in stoves for cooking. The coop is fairtrade-certified. Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. Fairtrade offers producers a better deal and improved terms of trade. This allows them the opportunity to improve their lives and plan for their future. Fairtrade offers consumers a powerful way to reduce poverty through their every day shopping. www.flocentroamerica.net
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCCEI_20111025_049.jpg
  • As the result of the trial of David Cáceres is awaited at the Supreme Justice Court, for his part in the assassination of Lenca leader Berta Cáceres, Lenca and Garifuna offerings are made in the street. People carry posters that say Justicia para Berta - Justice for Berta and light candles as incense, candles and tobacco burn.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210705_5...jpg
  • Vultures stretch atop the rubbish as tyres burn. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_711.jpg
  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
<br />
Marco Rosalio is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
<br />
The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
<br />
"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
<br />
"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
<br />
"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
<br />
"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
    honduras_hawkey_20170814_402.jpg
  • A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga". The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles, this is burned to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5357.jpg
  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_58...jpg
  • Nationalist banners were burned outside the US Embassy that gave support to the Nationalist Party despite widespread fraud.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_59...jpg
  • Marco Rosalio Duarte is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
<br />
The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
<br />
"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
<br />
"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
<br />
"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
<br />
"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • Alan Burns took part in the People's Pilgrimage, walking across the Philippines, and from Rome to Paris.
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  • Workers carry a large blue and white vase in a Buddhist temple in Chengdu, incense burns in the background.
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