Indigenous peoples and human rights in Honduras in a context of democratic abnormality
Since 2009, Honduras has been experiencing a serious constitutional crisis that has kept the country in a situation of permanent democratic normality, characterized, among other things, by an increasing deterioration of public institutions and by the prevalence of structural cynicism that translates...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/13394 |
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| Summary: | Since 2009, Honduras has been experiencing a serious constitutional crisis that has kept the country in a situation of permanent democratic normality, characterized, among other things, by an increasing deterioration of public institutions and by the prevalence of structural cynicism that translates into the fact that the State ratifies most international human rights treaties but adopt laws and practices contrary to them, particularly when it comes to imposing a development model based on extractivism whose origins date back to the 20th century and which has a significant impact on the lives and territories of native peoples. As the historian Marvin Barahona indicates, the background of this situation is the antagonism between the State and the indigenous peoples as a product of the exclusive exercise of power by the Creole elite that shaped the institutions and the national legal system in order to guarantee the imposition of such a model. In this unequal confrontation, the State and its institutions stand side by side with companies, and indigenous peoples resist using the claim of the discursive power of two political reports in the light of constitutional and inter-American standards: popular sovereignty and self-determination.
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| ISSN: | 2675-3111 |
