Sandra Cuffe

Freelance journalist

Central America

Freelance journalist reporting on environmental, indigenous and human rights issues in Canada and Central America.

Sandra Cuffe

Freelance journalist

Central America

Freelance journalist reporting on environmental, indigenous and human rights issues in Canada and Central America.

Teen mom who attempted suicide speaks out after deportation
Before her deportation, she was taken from her young son, stripped naked, put into isolation and hidden at a hotel
McClatchy
Guatemalans Are Taking Their Democracy Back
From massive national protests to local referenda on mining, people are clamoring for change
Truthout
Mining, Energy Contracts Investigated in Guatemala
Ministers for the environment, the interior, and energy and mines step down amid corruption scandals
Mongabay
The president must go!
In Guatemala, a growing people's anti-corruption movement demands the president's resignation
New Internationalist
Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets
Maya Q'eqchi' seek justice in Guatemala and Canada
Mongabay
Trade Deals Giving Corporations Power to Intimidate Countries
A mining company's lawsuit against El Salvador is a poignant example of how the deck is stacked to favor large companies
The New Republic
Salvadorans Declare More Territory Free of Mining
After decades of struggle, local participatory democracy is keeping mining out
Truthout
‘Little Canada’ displacing Garifuna communities
Canadian tourism projects are displacing Afro-Indigenous communities in Honduras.
Ricochet
Five Years After the Coup
Faced with repression, Honduran journalists and human rights defenders organize.
Briarpatch magazine
"We came back to Struggle"
Indigenous communities in Honduras are fighting back against new mining projects.
Earth Island Journal
Saskatchewan to Remain Nuclear Waste Free
Dene, Cree, Métis and settler residents of northern Saskatchewan celebrate an important victory
Intercontinental Cry
Drilling the Caribbean
Indigenous communities speak out against oil and gas exploration in Honduras
Beacon Reader
Sex Workers Protest Murders in Honduras
Fifteen sex workers were murdered in Honduras between September 2013 and January 2014 alone.
Upside Down World
Genocide on Trial
Could Guatemala's trial open new possibilities for Indigenous peoples to seek justice in Canada?
Canadian Dimension
No Home on the Range
Indigenous land defenders are taking action to recuperate weapons range lands.
The Dominion
Uranium's Chilling Effects
Community participation stifled as industry expands in northern Saskatchewan
The Dominion

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Sandra Cuffe

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Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist based in Central America, where she reports on environmental, indigenous and human rights issues.

Her work has been published by magazines, newspapers and websites, including The New Republic, New Internationalist, Earth Island Journal, Briarpatch, and Truthout.

Originally from Vancouver, she has lived in Honduras off and on for half of the past decade, and otherwise bounces around between neighbouring Central American countries, BC and northern Saskatchewan.

(Profile photograph by murray bush - flux photo)