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NYT: "In the past few weeks, a long-running battle over land in Bajo Aguán, this fertile valley near Honduras’s northern coast, has flared. At least 15 people have been killed in recent weeks alone, including two of the workers’ leaders, and the people here are on edge, fearful that the unrest could spread."
AND: "A veneer of normality has returned. A new president was elected on schedule, and the ousted former president finally returned from exile in May. But the political polarization that the coup revealed and the violence it stoked — including the murders of journalists and government opponents — have persisted, and no place more so than in Bajo Aguán.
“The opportunity was lost to introduce some very significant reforms that were sorely needed in Honduras,” said Kevin Casas-Zamora, an expert on Central America at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Honduras is a country with obscene social imbalances, and very little is being done to address that.”
