The Limits of the Politics of Recognition and the Right to Prior Consultation in Honduras the Garifuna Case

Abstract

In this article I analyze the articulation of the politics of recognition of indigenous and black communities in Honduras by focusing the recent Garifuna case about minorities' territorial rights. During the neoliberal period in Honduras, various cultural policies were implemented, but territorial rights were continually swindled in the name of tourism development projects. Following the submission of the draft of the Law on Free, Prior and Informed Consultation (cpli) by the Honduran government to the congress in 2018, I analyze how the "prior consultation" legal resource has been used to displace local communities from their territories to implement instead economic development projects alien to them.