Arrival to Honduras
After a long journey from Madrid to San Pedro Sula, that lasted more than one day, we were greeted by the happy face of Juan. As Juan had had a long day driving, Manu offered to help and so he got his first experience of honduran roads at night. Manu truly had to concentrate not to hit the people, cows, dogs, hens and holes that constantly appeared on the way.
Tegucigalpa
We hardly had time to leave our bags to our temporary housing in Tocoa when we were sent to Tegucigalpa with the lawyer of our foundation and a group of leaders of the local peasant organizations. Once there our eyes were rapidly opened to the complex social problems of this country. We had the chance to meet the State Attourney General, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Director of the National Institute of Agriculture. While we were waiting for the meetings to start, the peasants one by one told their stories. Most of them had been illegally removed from their lands, they had faced police harrasment, even torture. Suprisingly for us many of the leaders had received death threats. We had already studied about these human rights violations and now we had faces to them. Many of these peasants live in inhumane living conditions with their families without a posibility for income. Yet the peasant's knowledge about their rights, the determination and the high rate of organisation impacted us.
After a long journey from Madrid to San Pedro Sula, that lasted more than one day, we were greeted by the happy face of Juan. As Juan had had a long day driving, Manu offered to help and so he got his first experience of honduran roads at night. Manu truly had to concentrate not to hit the people, cows, dogs, hens and holes that constantly appeared on the way.
Tegucigalpa
We hardly had time to leave our bags to our temporary housing in Tocoa when we were sent to Tegucigalpa with the lawyer of our foundation and a group of leaders of the local peasant organizations. Once there our eyes were rapidly opened to the complex social problems of this country. We had the chance to meet the State Attourney General, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Director of the National Institute of Agriculture. While we were waiting for the meetings to start, the peasants one by one told their stories. Most of them had been illegally removed from their lands, they had faced police harrasment, even torture. Suprisingly for us many of the leaders had received death threats. We had already studied about these human rights violations and now we had faces to them. Many of these peasants live in inhumane living conditions with their families without a posibility for income. Yet the peasant's knowledge about their rights, the determination and the high rate of organisation impacted us.
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