Researcher & host of @HondurasNow podcast. Human rights, US & Cdn policy in Honduras. PhD candidate.
Joined August 2009
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Published this piece for @AFP - the first case of the US government sanctioning a Mexican human rights advocate.
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Fighting for Justice for Berta Caceres assassination, 10 yrs & counting...
Read article by @springkj about night & aftermath of Berta's assassination & ongoing struggle for justice; and recent @COPINHHONDURAS communique on attacks by Atala Zablah family:
mailchi.mp/rightsaction/figh…
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Article- The Morning of Berta’s Murder: Reflecting Ten Years Later by @springkj
On the 10th anniversary of Berta's siembra, some reflections on the morning of March 3, 2016, and the long hard road for justice ever since. #Honduras
hondurasnow.org/the-morning-…
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Here because of you: freed Honduran political prisoner meets his supporters in Elmvale collingwoodtoday.ca:443/loca…
An article that features the work that Simcoe County (Canada), the Simcoe County Honduras Rights Monitor, myself & others did to free political prisoners in Honduras:
Here because of you: Freed Honduran political prisoner meets his supporters in Elmvale
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“The scent of fraud”: The door opens for a new corporate assault on #Honduras
While invading Venezuela over pretense of drug trafficking, Trump pardoned a Honduran leader convicted of trafficking & intervened to install a successor from his party.
fpif.org/the-scent-of-fraud-…
🧵1. I’m reading the GIEI report & hope to send out key snippets in English, since there is lots of coverage in Spanish.
To get right to it from exec summary:
“The GIEI concluded that Berta Cáceres' murder was the result of a carefully planned & executed organized criminal
#GIEIHonduras publica informe final sobre su investigación del caso de la defensora Berta Cáceres.
🔍 El informe del GIEI analiza la investigación llevada a cabo por las autoridades hondureñas sobre el asesinato de la defensora Berta Cáceres y delitos conexos, aportando nuevos hallazgos e indicios que pueden dar lugar a nuevas líneas de investigación a ser impulsadas por el Estado . El documento además propone un plan de reparación integral de los daños individuales y colectivos sufridos a raíz del asesinato.
✅ Sus recomendaciones establecen las medidas que deben implementarse en el corto y mediano plazo para restaurar la dignidad de las víctimas, reconstruir el tejido social y garantizar que crímenes como este, no se repitan.
📄 Lee el Comunicado ow.ly/VLav50XVHq8
💻Visita la web del GIEI - Honduras: ow.ly/JACB50XVHq5
operation involving a network of accomplices that included hitmen, intermediaries with military training, personnel & executives from Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), as well as networks of support, tolerance, & omission from various sectors of the state.” @COPINHHONDURAS
2. “The GIEI established that the crime was foreseeable & preventable. The State had specific, real-time information warning of its planning, including telephone intercepts in which the murder was explicitly discussed, payments, weapons,
Don’t crack your teeth: Tom Stevenson on Trump’s Greenland fixation.
Some interesting historical background:
lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/january/…
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🗞️⚠️#LOULTIMO~Karen Spring fundadora de Honduras Now (@springkj ) hace un llamado al gobierno de Canadá para que investigue la ocupación de tierras en la bahia de Trujillo, especialmente al ciudadano canadiense Randy Jorgersen "Rey del Porno" por las acusaciones que enfrenta por usurpasión de tierras, lavado de dinero y fraude.
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In July, I went to a village in Michoacán, Mexico destroyed by combat between cartels the Trump administration categorized as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
What did I find? Bullets produced in a US Army factory and used by those very same FTOs.
theintercept.com/2025/10/02/…
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Speaking of corruption in Central America:
"U.S. businessman Carl Alan Zaglin, the CEO of Atlanco, a Georgia-based military & police equipment supplier, is standing trial in the Southern District of Florida. Zaglin is charged with conspiring to commit money laundering & (cont)
The United States is committed to countering China’s corrupt influence in Central America. Today the @StateDept is announcing a new visa restriction policy that will restrict U.S. visas for Central American nationals, and their immediate family members, who are intentionally acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party and threatening our region's stability.
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#Honduras faces $19.4B in suits-53% of 2024 #GDP-from energy investors incl. #renewables, per @IPS_DC @TNInstitute @TerraJusta @hondurassol.
@springkj:“Neocolonial tribunals demand profits over public good.”
#ClimateJustice tinyurl.com/3hz2kcrx
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Randy Jorgensen, Canadian “King of Porn” accused
“of looting and illicit trafficking of archaeological patrimonial assets” in Honduras Garifuna Territory
When will Canada investigate the multiple alleged criminal dealings of Randy Jorgensen??
More here: mailchi.mp/rightsaction/rand…
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Asesinaron a otro gran compañero luchador social, luchaba por la vida, contra el extractivismo. Muere criminalizado, sin que se investigaran las amenazas que recibía constantemente, muere sin que el Estado cumpliera la medida cautelar de la CIDH que ordenaba proteger su vida.
Thank you to all the kind and understanding strangers that let me cut the line in the Houston airport to make my flight. I promise to pay it forward! 💛
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We're sick to our stomachs about @AIPAC spending $8 million to try and oust the first Black Lives Matter activist member of Congress, Cori Bush.
St. Louis, make sure to vote tomorrow!