CORTÉS, HONDURAS.- The crimes against ambientist and indigenous leaders in Honduras are not forthcoming. La noche del domingo, in the northern department of Cortés, registered the assassin of the leader lenca Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante, 41 years old, and on Monday the authorities arrest one of the supuestos responsible.
The hecho is registered in front of the Catholic Church in the community of New Granada, between the municipalities of Chinda, Santa Bárbara and San Antonio Cortés, in the department of Cortés, when the ambientist regressed the house of his mother.
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Betty Vásquez, coordinator of the Santabarbarense Ambientalista Movement (MAS), declares to The Associated Press that Cerros was the pastoral agent of the Catholic Church and that at the moment the crime is with his wife, who represents the death of his father.
We want to move the local denomination movementor “United Communities” which agglomerates the aledanic groups in the Ulúa de Chinda and San Antonio Cortés rivers, which defend the river against the El Tornillito hydroelectric project in this area.
“We are the assistant of a defender and a partner more. Nee es justo. There is no possible accusation of the defender and the territorial’s criminal case, the persigan y luego te quiten la vida. “This is a crime that we value as a politician,” Vásquez said.
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For his part, the Inspector of the National Police, Juan Sabillón, responsible for the noroccidental region, told the AP that “we are conducting investigations and holding a number of fully identified persons”.
“The National Police, three investigative and allied actions, report the capture of the intellectual author of the indigenous leader Juan Carlos Cerros”, wrote the latest public order scandal on its official Twitter account.
Follow the statistics of the international movement Vía Campesina, solo in 2020 asesinaron in Honduras a total of 12 defenders de los recursos naturales.
The last of the crimes will be registered in December. The 26th of this month was finally the leader of the ethnic group and preceded and represented by the Freedom and Refund Party (Free), Félix Vásquez, in the municipality of Santiago de Puringla, in La Paz, and one day after the murmur of the member of the community of Tolupán José Adán Medina, in the municipality of Morazán, Yoro department.
Honduras is considered one of the most exciting countries for ambientist activism, following an investigation by Global Witness published in 2017, since 2010 he killed more than 120 people.
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The crime most committed to crime is that of the ambientist Berta Cáceres, ultimada a balazos el 3 de mars de 2016 por desconocidos que entraron a su casa in el municipio de La Esperanza, departamento de Intibucá y le dispararon en repetidas ocasiones.
Agreed with dates published by Global Witness, on March 2, 2020, at least 27 people defending the earth and the territory have been assigned since the fatal attack on Berta.