Prominent Honduran Rural Leader Under Police Protection Killed | News | teleSUR English

Prominent Honduran Rural Leader Under Police Protection Killed | News | teleSUR English

 

According
to campesino organizations, at least 150 rural activists have been
killed so far in the area, as a result of fighting for their land
rights.

Honduras' prominent
rural leader and head of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguan
Valley, or MUCA, Jose Angel Flores was assassinated in Tocoa, in the
northern department of Colon, reported teleSUR's correspondent in
Honduras Gerardo Torres Monday night. 

 

MUCA's President Jose Angel Flores was assassinated today. | Photo: Facebook