Honduras: longtime campesina leader murdered | World War 4 Report

10.9.14

Honduras: longtime campesina leader murdered | World War 4 Report: As of Aug. 28 the police said they had no indication of the murder's
authors. Murillo was leading a small cooperative, The Windows Campesino
Associative Production Enterprise, that was engaged in a land dispute in
the area where she was working at the time of her death. Soldiers had
carried off her grown son Samuel from the house where the family lives
in Marañón community, south of San Pedro Sula, on July 26; he was
reportedly still missing as of Aug. 30. According to Rafael Alegría, a
legislative deputy and campesino leader, some 200 campesinos have been
murdered and about 700 campesinas face legal charges in cases involving
land disputes. (La Prensa, San Pedro Sula, Sept. 28; El Ciudadano, Chile, Aug. 29, from TeleSUR; Vía Campesina, Aug. 30)