Rapid Response Network

killing of two indigenous leaders (Rosmeldo Solorzano and Mario Leman Muller) by outside settlers in the North Carribean Coast Autonomous Region , and Nicaraguan Army attack on humanitarian caravan injuring three indigenous (Constantino Romel Frech, Obencio Downs Peralta, Rosman Flores Gonzales)

assassination of two LGBT rights advocates and members of Association for a Better Life (APUVIMEH) (Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez and Jorge Alberto Castillo) and patterns of intimidation by police against other APUVIMEH members (Sandra Zambrano, Cristian Daniel Cortes Sagastume, Silvio Gerardo Artola, Carlos Alberto Cardona Varela)

assassination by paramilitaries of Ernesto Guzmán , who had close associations with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Antioquia Dept.

assassination of 70-year-old Sebastian Córdova Sajic, a human rights defender and spiritual leader and one of few survivors of genocide against the Ixil Maya indigenous people in El Quiché Department

assassination of environmental human rights defender Professor Rigoberto Lima Choc, who documented harm resulting from the palm plantation REPSA in El Petén Dept., and kidnapping and threats to members of the Commission for the Defense of Life and Nature (Hermelindo Asij, Lorenzo Pérez and Manuel Mendoza)

silencing of journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado who is unjustly banned from working by order of the Honduran Supreme Court

assassination of journalist Flor Alba Núñez Vargas outside her radio station in Pitalito, Huila Dept.

unjust 2-year detention and false criminal charges against Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, members of the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.

assassination of three LGBT rights advocates (Violeta R., Angy Ferreira, Juan Carlos Cruz Andara), threats against six, and attacks on four over the past five months.

intimidation of and shots fired outside the office of CALAS, an environmental group denouncing abuses by Tahoe Resources mining company in Santa Rosa Dept.