In the Valley of Death: a story of Honduran Land and Water Defenders being Murdered at the Hands of Transnational Corporations. For over a decade campesino, or “peasant”, activists, environmentalists, and land occupiers in the Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have been terrorized, threatened, and murdered at an alarming rate. Most of the killings have been attributed to the Dinant Corporation (owners of large swaths of African Palm plantations) and Pinares mining company (an iron mine illegally on National Park land that threatens to pollute river systems). With little to no help from a corrupt government, these large corporations are operating with complete impunity in their crimes as campesinos get murdered while trying to protect their land and rights. In Honduras, the deadliest place for environmentalists per capita, the Aguan Valley, could be considered “The Valley of Death”.

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The girlfriend (right) of Jairo Bonilla and mother (left) of Aly Domínguez weep over the caskets of the murdered environmentalists in Guapinol, Honduras.