Honduras: three more murders in large agribusiness company

Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras

Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of ​​the country, officials said.

A brief news report revealed that police “Denis Rodriguez, Luis Portillo and Jeremy Bolton, company employees Dinant, riddled died when driving a vehicle between Olanchito and Sheba”, about 800 km northeast of the capital, men who attacked them with heavy weapons.

On Wednesday the authorities discovered the body of a peasant, Adonis Lopez, a dirt road on a farm and one day before killed another peasant unknown, Arnold Robles, and wounded four in an ambush on another farm and attacking shot.

According to the governmental Human Rights Commission, over 50 farmers and employees or guards palm agribusiness firms have been killed in two years enfrentamietos by the land dispute or action of the drug trafficking gangs in the fertile valley of Aguán in the Caribbean coast. Read Article