To Address Honduran Refugee Crisis at the Border, US Should Stop Financing Repression in Honduras

July 2014
Truthout

"In mid-July, the first planeload of women and children who had fled Honduras and found themselves in the center of a refugee controversy at the US border were sent back into the same dire situation they risked their lives to leave. They were dropped off at Palmerola Airforce Base, a base north of Tegucigalpa jointly controlled by US and Honduran military and given 650 lempiras, or $30, to get back to the towns and villages they had fled.  ..."

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July 28, 2014