Being Better Neighbors towards Latin America

Organizaciones internacionales condenan el asesinato de abogado defensor de derechos humanos de campesinos y campesinas del Bajo Aguan y de fiscal especial para los derechos humanaos. Haga click aqui para leer el comunicado en su totalidad.

On Saturday night, September 22th, 2012, after he attended a wedding, Antonio Trejo Cabrera was shot six times. He later died at a Tegucigalpa hospital.  He was the legal representative of the MARCA campesino movement, and in June he had won the historic though still contested judgment in favor of returning three plantations to campesinos in Bajo Aguán.

“Since they couldn't beat him on the courts, they killed him,” said Vitalino Alvarez, a spokesman for Bajo Aguan's peasant movements, cited in an Associated Press story.  Trejo "had denounced those responsible for his future death on many occasions."  Trejo also prepared legal challenges to a proposal by U.S. and Honduran companies to run privately-run charter cities that critics call unconstitutional, as they would skirt national labor and other laws.

International Organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguán, Honduras.

We, the undersigned international organisations and civil society networks, would like to express our severe concern with respect to the recent acts of repression, violence and criminalization of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguán.

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Version en español.