Mosquito coast, Honduras / by KARIN-BAM STOWE

The Garifuna people were washed ashore, African slaves that escaped into a paradise found. Their homes for generations, lining the pristine beaches and warm winds of Honduras. Yet now as ever, their lands are desired by the man-without. He has come to take their estates, their lives, anyway he can. So he can build condominiums for the retiring rich from the States to wallow on the beaches and entertain their like minded “little boxes” friends. I worked with Ofraneh, a Garifuna human rights collective, who are under constant threat from the crooked governance that would have them all vanished. Many have disappeared and their lands been taken. The fight to protect their lands is timeless, is persists and will endure until someone ends the man-without and his need to have at any cost.

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Teresa, freedom fighter, had here house set on fire, her children fleeing just in time. She is melancholy on the surface, but bristles under, but without ways to stop those that pillage she must endure. Imagine.

The beach families are left homeless to watch as their land is built upon, a calmness furnishes the Garifuna to stay relaxed. My fury knows no bound and the day dreams of ending the Man-Without fill my endless travels.