'Charter Cities' and escalating human rights violations in Honduras

Canada's economic plot for Honduras is wavering. The "Charter Cities" initiative that Harper's Conservatives have been discreetly championing for months has erupted in a constitutional challenge and a flurry of human rights abuses.Yesterday, NDP MP for Toronto-Danforth Craig Scott submitted a letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Diane Ablonczy regarding recent violence in Honduras and links to Canadian investment.In particular, the letter draws attention to the assassination of Antonio Trejo-Cabrera, a Honduran human rights lawyer who had recently presented a Constitutional challenge to the Charter Cities initiative and was planning a trip to Washington, D.C. to testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

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