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  • The EU election observer mission to the elections made statements that they had witnessed a lot of irregularities in the elections.
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  • Protest marches, like this one, ending at the US Embassy are frequent since the US recognised Hernandez as the winner of the November 2017 elections, despite the OAS finding systemic irregularities before, during and after the election and the General Secretary of the OAS calling for new elections.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Many soldiers covered their faces with black masks. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
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  • People being searched at entrance to a voting station. Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010 won by Juan Manuel Santos, ex-minister of defence for Uribe.
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  • Salvador Nasralla, the candidate who is thought by most to have won the elections fairly, joined protestors against Juan Orlando and electoral fraud.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting are overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process have been identified by the EU and EOA observer teams. A full recount has been requested. The elections were held on Nov 26 and there was no final declaration of results by Dec 13th.
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  • President Uribe speaks to the press on the morning of the presidential elections in 2007
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  • Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010 won by Juan Manuel Santos, ex-minister of defence for Uribe.  "El Santo de mi devoción" is the message on the T-shirt of this support of Santos.
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  • Crowds wept and raised clenched fists as the FMLN was announced as the election winner in the general elections in El Salvador, 2009.
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  • A vote is cast in the ballot box for Presidental Elections
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  • Crowds cheered and raised clenched fists as the FMLN was announced as the election winner in the general elections in El Salvador, 2009.
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  • Crowds cheered and raised clenched fists as the FMLN was announced as the election winner in the general elections in El Salvador, 2009.
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  • A young woman draped in the red FMLN flag walked home after celebrating that the FMLN won the elections
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  • A security guard stood ready to shoot as he guarded the Cuscatlan Stadium. Many foreign buses were in the stadium, thought by crowds outside to be carrying illegal foreign voters to the elections
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  • ARENA supporters campaigned inside a voting station during the general elections of 2009. In Salvadorean law, it is illegal to campaign inside voting stations.
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  • The human rights ombudsman talked to a crowd of protesters outside the Villa Olimpica centre in San Salvador the night before the elections. the centre was being used by around 50 buses with Guatemalan number plates, and the crowd was convinced that the foreigners had been brought into the city by the right-wing ARENA party to vote illegally. Gun shots were heard at the back of the centre and hundreds of people escaped from Villa Olimpica over the back fence.
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  • Young people cheered as the FMLN won the elections in San Salvador
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  • A senior policeman discussed with an angry crowd outside the Cuscatlán stadium the night before the general elections in 2009. The stadium had a large number of buses with Guatemalan and Honduran number plates, believed to have brought illegal voters into the city as part of a fraud by the ARENA party to remain in power.
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  • Riot police cleared protestors against illegal voters the night before the elections in San Salvador.
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  • Armed police officers guarded a pickup truck carrying Guatemalans, thought by an angry crowd to be brought into the city to vote illegally in the elections for the right-wing ARENA party.
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  • A full recount of votes was requested by several parties and groups, but once Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the "winner" - by the officials he'd himself put into positions in the electoral tribunal - the head of the Organisation of American States called for new elections. Faith in the transparency and trustworthiness of the electoral tribunal is extremely low, so a new tribunal would need to be established beforehand.
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  • David Matamorros, the top magistration of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the TSE, looks at his watch. The election results, that he was responsible for delivering were three weeks late and evidence of widespread fraud were abundant.
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  • The day before the general election in San Salvador, a man wearing an ARENA T-shirt under his shirt was caught by an angry crowd amid suspicions that ARENA was bringing in fraudent voters from Honduras and Guatemala to swing the election.
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  • FMLN supporters waved flags and applauded as ex-guerrilla leaders spoke to the crowds while they waited for the election results.
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  • Election invigilators checked rulings on each contested vote.
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  • Votes were counted at a voting station in Ayutuxtepeque, San Salvador. Every vote was scrutinised by an officer from each political party. The vote is for the FMLN and the election was won by the FMLN.
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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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  • Election invigilators checked rulings on each contested vote, by torchlight, because at the moment of counting, mysteriously, the electricity and lights were turned off.
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  • Staff from the Special Unit of the Fiscalía of the Republic of El Salvador attend a voting centre in Mexicanos, San Salvador, to check on an individual using false documents to vote during the election
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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.
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  • A demonstrator in Tegucigalpa covered his face with the Honduran flag.
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  • Mel Zelaya and Salvador Nasralla speak to crowds during a demonstration against electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171210_2...jpg
  • Large crowds demonstrated against Juan Orlando Hernández and electoral fraud.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171210_1...jpg
  • Protestors against Juan Orlando Hernández waved flags during a demonstration.
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  • Juan Olando Hernandez, widely known as JOH, stands briefly with his correligionaries during a demonstration in Tegucigalpa
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  • Burning barricades on the street in Comayagüela during protests against electoral fraud
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  • A soldier instructs another to film the photographer as tyres are taken from protestors in a demonstration against fraud in the capital Tegucigalpa
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  • A soldier tries to hit the photographer with a baton. Many journalists have lost their lives in Honduras since the 2009 coup, and intimidation of any journalist who doesn’t work for an approved media outlet is routine.
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  • Soldiers march towards a burning barricade in the capital Tegucigalpa
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  • Honduran Army begin to move a burning barricade on the outskirts of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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  • A protestor held a banner outside the US Embassy reading: "You want to reduce illegal immigration? Then support democracy in Honduras! Stop legitimizing FRAUD! Fuera JOH"
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  • Protestors against electoral fraud sang the Honduran national anthem outside the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
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  • An elederly man joined large crowds and demonstrated against Juan Orlando Hernández and electoral fraud. He holds a banner with the face of the candidate Salvador Nasralla.
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  • Ousted President Mel Zelaya jointed large crowds demonstrating against Juan Orlando Hernández and electoral fraud.
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  • Large crowds demonstrated against Juan Orlando Hernández and electoral fraud. The banner reads: when 'dictatorship is a reality, revolution is a right'.
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  • After a march by Nationalist PArty supporters, videos circulated on social media showing that many of those on the march had been paid 50 Lempiras to attend. Protestors mocked them, calling them cinquentapeseros, in allusion to the 50 Lempiras paid, and that the Nationalists needed to pay for support.
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  • Protestors against Juan Orlando Hernández waved flags during a demonstration.
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  • Nationalist banners were burned outside the US Embassy that gave support to the Nationalist Party despite widespread fraud.
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  • Sombreros with messages supporting Juan Orlando Hernández on sale during a march to support the President. Daily demonstrations against the President were made amid the widespread belief that the president has used fraud to hold onto power. Videos circulated of people being paid to attend to pro-government march.
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  • Voters search for their names at the voting tables in Bogota
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  • A presidential bodyguard in Bogotá, Colombia
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  • Supporters of National Party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez shouted their slogan 'four years more' and made a four-finger-salute as they marched in Tegucigalpa. Videos circulated on social media shortly afterwards showing that many of those on the march had been paid 50 Lempiras to attend.
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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.
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  • Mel Zelaya and Salvador Nasralla spoke to crowds in a demonstration against electoral fraud in Tegcuigalpa
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171210_2...jpg
  • During a demonstration against Juan Orlando Hernández, marchers were accompanied by a large group of motorcyclists.
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  • During a demonstration against Juan Orlando Hernández, marchers were accompanied by marching bands.
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  • Cases of votes from across Honduras are stored in a warehouse in a government building in Tegucigalpa, workers select cases for a partial recount.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting the votes were overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process were identified by the EU and EOA observer teams and the final declaration was more than two weeks coming, during which time the computer system was said to have crashed four or five times, including once for 24 hours. Controversially, each time the computer system came back on line the results had changed in favour of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • A couple in clothing celebrated the FMLN electoral win.
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  • A group of people with drums and red clothing celebrated the electoral win of the FMLN in El Salvador
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  • FMLN supported walked up the Paseo Escalón to celebrate the electoral win
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  • A young man in a red FMLN T-shirt sat on the front of a vehicle as people celebrated the FLMN electoral win in El Salvador
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  • An ARENA vehicle was stopped by an angry crowd in San Salvador and the people inside were accused of travelling armed and accompanying a vehicle carrying foreigners, thought by the crowd to be brought into the country to vote illegally for the right-wing ARENA party.
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  • A man was taken by police, accused of travelling armed and accompanying a vehicle carrying foreigners, thought by the crowd to be brought into the country to vote illegally for the right-wing ARENA party.
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  • an invigilator checeds a voters identity against the voting register in San Salvador
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  • David Matamoros Batson, President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras, speaking during the much-criticised electoral process in Tegucigalpa after the November 2017 elections in Honduras. Matamoros is thought by many to be the mastermind of a huge fraud to reinstall Juan Orlando Hernández in power.<br />
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The Nationalist Party used a four-finger-salute with the slogan 'four more years' during the election process.
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  • David Matamoros Batson, President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras, speaking during the much-criticised electoral process in Tegucigalpa after the November 2017 elections in Honduras. Matamoros is thought by many to be the mastermind of a huge fraud to reinstall Juan Orlando Hernández in power.
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  • Juan Manuel Santos, Presidential candidate, and ex-minister for defence for Uribe (and now President), arriving at a voting station in Bogota during Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010.
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  • David Matamoros Batson, President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras, speaking during the much-criticised electoral process in Tegucigalpa after the November 2017 elections in Honduras. Matamoros is thought by many to be the mastermind of a huge fraud to reinstall Juan Orlando Hernández in power.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171205_0...jpg
  • Jimmy Randolfo Aguilar lay on a hospital bed in the emergency room of Choluteca hospital, beaten by a reportedly large group of soldiers during a demonstration against fraud in the elections, sources said he died from his injuries later that night.<br />
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In a letter shared with the photographer, emergency room staff in the same hospital were instructed to make a special report of anyone with injuries related to tear gas, baton beatings or bullet wounds likely to have been inflicted by armed forces or police. <br />
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Human rights groups are documenting many cases of people being taken from their homes by military units at night, after taking part in demonstrations. It is repeatedly claimed by victims and human rights groups that profiles of protestors adn opposition activists are provided to the authorities by their neighbours who work on government programmes like Vida Mejor (Better Life), and the presumption is that they are obliged to provide this information on their neighbours. Army then arrive at night and call opposition members out by their names and nicknames - and use force to gain entry if they don’t come out.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work. Here riot police speak with a human rights observer.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171206_5...jpg
  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171206_4...jpg
  • Police in the Plaza Bolivar, Casa de Nariño, Bogotá. Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010 won by Juan Manuel Santos, ex-minister of defence for Uribe.
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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.
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  • A human pyramid emulates the Alexis Arguello statue in Managua on Election night, 6 Nov 2011. The announcement had been made that Daniel Ortega had won a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • A young man is thrown in the air during celebrations on election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
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Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
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"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
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Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
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My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
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My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
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He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
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It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
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He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_778.jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_792.jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • A boy in Niger wears an oversized T-shirt from the Obama election campaign
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Tomás Borge Martínez on election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega won a landslide victory.  Borge died soon afterwards and was the last living founder of the revolutionary FSLN. In this picture he is flanked by security and in front of the Alexis Arguello statue.
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  • Election night in Managua on 6 Nov 2011, as it is announced that Daniel Ortega wins a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
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  • Martha Marak at home in her kitchen. Martha built her house herself, she lives here with her children. Typical of kitchens in the region, she cooks on a floor-level stove that is closed at the back and open at the front. This type of stove has several advantages. It has two hobs, one for a large pan, the other for a kettle. This stove can accept long pieces of firewood without the need for them to be chopped up. For Martha, who has a heavy routine of manual labour, this is a significant saving of her time and energy. While the smoke can be bothersome it keeps the insects out of the house. Martha gets up at 4am, and without electicity she depends on the light from the stove in the early-morning darkness. Here, Martha is preparing a snack of mini-popcorn made from millet that she has grown herself. Martha's daughter Critika watches her mum.
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
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Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
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It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
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Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2730.jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2710.jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
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