Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My son's name was Ángel Elvir Colón Baltazar. His cancer began in his back and then went into his lungs. He had 12 chemotherapy sessions and did not survive the last session. He died in the hospital and was buried in Choloma, in Honduras, near San Pedro Sula. He was my eldest son

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, there were sometimes entire families who were detained in maximum security facilities—mothers, fathers, children, grandparents. It is forbidden to help other prisoners within a prison in Mexico. You were punished, or the harassment within prison increased if you did that.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  When I was put in prison and tortured and called a damned Columbian black, that was a clear indication that there was a racial aspect to the problem. There is also the fact that I was tortured in a different way. There was public torture in one case, because they wanted to show o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My name is Ángel Amílcar Colón Quevedo. I am former president of an organization in Honduras representing the Garifuna people, who in 2001 were declared by UNESCO as a heritage group. Honduras is going through an economic crisis. Because of the violence, the seizure of lands in