LA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) is a feature length documentary that combines breathtaking cinematography with intimate access and creative storytelling as it follows COPINH and OFRANEH, two grassroots Indigenous and Black organizations leading the struggle for justice in Honduras. The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), co-founded by the assassinated leader Berta Cáceres, works with the Lenca Indigneous peoples of the mountains in the interior of Honduras. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) is the black people's social movement along the lush coast of Honduras led by Miriam Miranda. Together these groups are holding down the frontlines of resistance in the face of the US-backed military dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez as they work to dismantle interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and racism.
COPINH and OFRANEH are the resistance. They are the water. They are the land itself. Bullets cannot kill their fight to protect the land and build a Honduras that is rooted in justice for everyone and guided by Ancestral knowledge. Four years after the brutal assassination of world-renowned Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in 2016, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, sheds light on the role of the Atala Zablah's, the Honduran oligarchic family, who with corporate actor David Castillo, are part of the Honduran oligarchy and are alleged to be intellectual authors behind the assassination of Berta Cáceres.
Honduran resistance to colonial violence is led by Indigenous and Black women. One of those leaders is Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, the namesake daughter of Berta Cáceres and current leader of COPINH. Another major leader guiding the fight is Miriam Miranda, co-founder of OFRANEH. Both Miriam and Bertha Zúniga have survived assassination attempts and continue to see comrades of their organizations assassinated on a regular basis. While those losses are devastating, they are not frozen by the pain. Instead they harness the rage to stand up to deadly forces and reshape the imagination of a world dominated by the dehumanizing forces of capitalism while building a world of Indigenous and black sovereignty and justice for all. The film unfolds through Miriam and Bertha Zúniga's lived realities as they navigate colonial minefields and speak truth to imperial power. The film opens at Utopia, COPINH's Center for Gathering and Friendship, an autonomous training center that's a living example of the life-affirming alternative projects that can be built when people gather to plan political projects and construct strategies of resistance. It's called Utopia because it's a place to dream. Utopia is even home to organic agricultural projects meant to push back on the food insecurity experienced by so many Lenca communities due to colonization. Utopia is a model of sustainable systems of local food production while also generating autonomous income sources. Bertha Zúniga invites viewers into COPINH's revolutionary world through sharing glimpses of their historic gathering, The Peoples' Guancasco for Life and Autonomy. There, land defenders from across the country and continent share their resistance stories of fighting megaprojects invading their traditional territories and threatening their lives.
Next, viewers are introduced to the world-renowned Indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres who was assassinated in 2016. Showing footage from 2013, Berta tells gathered Lenca people, "seventy-million Indigenous [people] were killed on this continent." She explains that the genocide was used to exploit the lands and the people and that the powerful countries in the North were built on that exploitation. Through Berta's countless visits to the community, thousands of Indigenous people were politicized and their strength fortified. Berta's fierce personality and relentless determination are revealed as we see her in action in communities building the political force that took on colonialism and
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