... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...
... an operative by the Police Investigation Directorate (Dirección Policial de Investigaciones, DPI), four young people, including the president of the community board of trustees, were kidnapped and are ...
... police uniforms kidnapped the five leaders after forcefully invading their homes, breaking windows, tampering with locks, and forcing the Garífuna men—Alberth Centeno, Milton Martínez, Suami Mejía, Gerardo ...
... death threats. In June 2009, Marcelo Rivera, a school teacher, community leader in San Isidro and outspoken opponent of the mine was kidnapped. About two weeks later his body was found with visible signs ...
... to mining were attacked, including Miguel Rivera’s brother Marcelo, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. Miguel himself has been the target of threats and intimidation.
As extreme as the corporate ...
... Luis Martinez to work efficiently to find the masterminds who currently walk the streets free, with impunity... my brother was kidnapped and tortured before he was murdered... we want an in depth investigation ...
... campaign to publicly defame him, and had narrowly escaped a vehicular assault earlier in the year. He was kidnapped on June 18, while in-route by bus from San Isidro to Ilobasco. His dead body was found ...
... days after this piece, that directly affects mining extraction, was presented, Marcelo was kidnapped and murdered.”
As recounted by Francisco Pineda “On July 27 we received (Neftalí Ruiz, el Padre Luis ...
... peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed men who were ...
It’s been nearly 50 days since five Garífuna leaders were abducted in their homes in Triunfo de la Cruz, on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. On July 18 at 5:30 AM, men wearing police uniforms kidnapped the ...