Finding a Map

I've been working with Cultural Survival for the past 2 years, based out of Antigua,
Guatemala. As part of our Global Response Program, we are currently running a letter-
writing campaign at the request of Indigenous peoples of the Moskitia, Honduras, to
halt the construction of a hydro-electric dam along the pristine Patuca River. Despite
years of protest from local Indigenous peoples and international environmental groups,
In January, the Honduras government signed a contract with a Chinese company to build
the dam. We're collaborating with grassroots organizations to get the word out around
the world that big corporations and governments can't storm their tractors and bulldozers
wherever they please, and especially not in a region that is one of the most bio-diverse
and unique tropical wetlands that still exist on this troubled Earth.

With just a couple weeks notice, Cultural Survival was asked to attend a conference run
by one of our collaborating organizations, the local governance body of the Miskutu
people, acronymed MASTA. I was graciously given the opportunity to attend the
conference as Cultural Survival’s representative. I jumped at the chance- eager to meet
the local activist heroes I've been quoting, editing, and sub-titling over the past two
months as I helped develop our Global Response campaign materials. I started looking
for a good map.

After a full week of trying to make travel plans, I hadn't come up with much. Ahuas, the
conference location and the "heart of MASTA" is located in La Moskitia, a region of
Honduras that is isolated and much forgotten by the western, more urban, half of the
country. I knew this wasn't going to be easy. There are no roads to Ahuas.

The red lines on this map of Honduras are roads. In La Moskitia, road transportation is not an option.