[HNA] Centro Presente and the Honduran Project invite you to a Panel Discussion on current events in Honduras

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Centro Presente and the Honduran Project invite you to a Panel Discussion on
current events in Honduras with representatives of Honduran Civil Society
and Immigrant Leaders in the U.S.


When: Thursday, 6 August 2009, 10:00 am

 



Where: 206 Cabot Hall,The Fletcher School, Tufts University

 


160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA

 



For more information contact:
Patricia Montes- Centro Presente, Boston, MA- (617) 959 - 3108
Tito Meza - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 610 - 3784
Isabel Lopez - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 306 - 1365

 


 
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Panelists will include:
Dr. Juan Almendares (to be confirmed) is an internationally known Honduran
medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental leader and alternative
medicine practitioner.  He has received recognition for his outstanding and
courageous work with victims of torture in Honduras. He is the
internationally chosen recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for his
groundbreaking efforts with prisoners, victims of torture, the poor, and
indigenous populations. A torture survivor himself, Dr. Almendares has been
targeted by death squads on several occasions.

Oscar Chacón serves currently as Executive Director of the National Alliance
of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC). Until December, 2006,
Mr. Chacón served as director of Enlaces América, a project of the
Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. Mr.
Chacón served for most of the 1990's as executive director of Centro
Presente, Inc, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Chacón served for many years
as president of the Salvadoran American National Network (SANN). Mr. Chacón
is a frequent lecturer in national and international conferences, as well as
a media spokesperson on Latino immigrant issues in the U.S. 

Abencio Fernández Pineda is the coordinator of the non-governmental
organization Center for the Investigation and Defense of Human Rights in
Honduras (CIPRODEH, by its Spanish initials) for the western region of
Honduras.  Mr. Pineda was previously an attorney for the Committee for the
Defense of Human Rights (CODEH) and the Committee of the Relatives of
Disappeared Detainees of Honduras (COFADEH).

Maria Luisa Jimenez, a former police officer in Honduras, denounced the
widespread corruption in the police force and is now an activist for
transparency in government and women's rights.  She is currently a candidate
for Honduran Congress with the Democratic Union party (UD).

Dr. Luther Castillo.  Dr. Castillo is a young Garifuna medical doctor and
community organizer who directs the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation ("For
the Health of our People" in Garifuna), dedicated to bringing vital health
services to isolated indigenous coastal communities. After his 2005
graduation from the Latin American Medical School in Havana, Dr. Castillo
returned to the Honduran coast, where he led the Foundation's construction
of Honduras' first Garifuna Rural Hospital, now serving some 20,000 in the
surrounding communities.  The hospital opened in December 2007, a few months
after Dr. Castillo was named "Honduran Doctor of the Year" by Rotary
International's Tegucigalpa chapter.

Gerardo Torres is an independent journalist in Honduras who is also an
active member of Los Necios, a grass-roots organization that seeks to change
the dominant socio-economic dynamics of Honduras.



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