Cayos Cochinos

So, you know, gotta love it.

Next place to go visit is called the Cayos Cochinos.

And it is a small group of islands near the mainland.

Cayos Cochinos.

Oh, Cochinos, I should say.

And talk about the color of water.

Here it is.

I mean, I don't know if I've, and I don't think this is AI, but I don't think I've ever seen this color of water in nature, in real life.

Right? Um, so, uh, you know, I, I think it's, I think lines are interesting, but I do my best to, to not maintain lines.

So like with my Hog Islands, I cross them all-

Mm-hmm

... to create genetically diverse offspring.

And across the island, they all look, you know, there's all different, you know, phenotypes, a lot of variants, but you see that in litters as well.

Mm-hmm.

Like, you can produce a litter of Hog Islands or Sonorans, but you see variation within that litter, and it's just what way people are selectively breeding those, you know.

And saying, "I want the stripey ones," or, "I want the ones that are more gray," or the, that doesn't mean that that's representative-

The National Party are back in power, including a whole bunch of people who have alleged ties to organized crime.

And then what we see in March is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues its fourth, um, favorable sentence for the Garifuna community, and this time it relates to this archipelago called the Cayos Cochinos, which is, like, maybe 40, 50 miles out into the Caribbean, which the government had several years before basically said they were converting it into a national park and started leasing this land out to Um, the reality show Survivor, the Spanish version of the reality show Sur- um, show Survivor.

And so the Inter-American Court says absolutely not.

This ancestral land is, you know, the Garifunas, the communities that live there, they have fishing rights.

Sure.

So I mean, I think it's really important to set the scene.

Cayos Cochinos is this absolutely breathtaking place.

It's right about 30 kilometers off the main coast of Honduras, right in the Caribbean.

In Honduras, protests have taken place for seven weeks outside the Supreme Court in the capital, Tegucigalpa, calling for landmark rulings from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in favor of coastal Garifuna communities to be upheld.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Labrador reports that a Spanish reality TV show called Sobrevivientes or Survivors was scheduled in September to start shooting its new season in Cayos Cochinos, in one of the areas disputed by Garifuna communities along the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

Upon landing at a beach called Playa Uva, the production crew ran into protests by the Garifuna people, an Afro-Indigenous community that has lived there for centuries.

The filming of the TV show in a protected nature reserve in Honduras has ignored court rulings as recent as March of this year, prohibiting them from operating without prior consultation with the community.

As you can see, Judge Warner showed up with an eviction order, claiming that this entire island of Cayo Menar belongs to the company Sociedad Ecológica.

For years under the filming, the community has been barred from fishing for food and lost access to fresh drinking water.

In its March ruling, the court condemned the state of Honduras for violating the human rights of the Garifuna community in Cayos Cochinos.

Honduran law explicitly recognizes beaches as public land intended for general use.