Honduran held in Mexican jail returns homePosted in Articles, Caribbean/Latin America, Law, Live Events, Media Archive, Mexico, United States on 2014-11-09 20:35Z by Steven |
Honduran held in Mexican jail returns home
BBC News
2014-11-08
A Honduran migrant who was jailed for more than five years by Mexican police is expected to arrive in his home country on Sunday.
Angel Amilcar Colon Quevedo belongs to the Garifuna community, descended from African slaves and indigenous groups.
He was picked up in 2009 by police in Tijuana in Mexico as he tried to across the border into the United States.
Human rights organisations say Mr Colon was tortured and detained on the basis of his ethnicity.
Mr Colon was released in mid-October but stayed on in Mexico to publicise the treatment he had received.
International human rights organisations worked alongside local rights campaigners to release him.
“I am an example of thousands of people who are in jail today and who do not have anyone defending them.” said Mr Colon…
…The Garifuna
The black communities living on the Caribbean coast of Central America are commonly called Garifuna or Black Carib, or as they refer to themselves, Garinagu.
Over the last three centuries, in spite of many migrations, re-settlements and interactions with Indians, British, French and Spanish, they have preserved much of the culture from their two main branches of ancestry.
The Garinagu are the descendants of Caribs Indians and Black African slaves. The Caribs were originally indigenous peoples from South America…
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