Criminalization

Five community leaders in Tornabé are facing criminal proceedings after publicly defending their ancestral territory, as the Organization of Fraternal Black Hondurans reports armed operations and intimidation against the Garífuna community.

Police carried out the first enforcement of Honduras's new agroindustrial protection law to evict Garífuna residents from ancestral land in San Juan, Tela, resulting in five usurpation charges and accusations that the law violates an Inter-American Court ruling protecting the community's territory.