Environmental Defenders

Environmental organizations MADJ and Bufete Dignidad filed complaints against Agregados del Caribe (AGRECASA), linked to the Sapadril mining project, alleging it operates without valid permits or environmental licenses, causes water and ecosystem damage, and systematically threatens and criminalizes activists opposing it.

Honduran police arrested a man wanted on an international red notice for his alleged involvement in the killing of two environmental defenders after three years as a fugitive.

A collaborative investigation by Contracorriente and partners documents how companies in the EMCO mining group funded coordinated social-media campaigns branding Guapinol river defenders as "fake environmentalists" — a pattern linked to the killing of three activists and the exile of more than 400 others.

A cross-border investigation by Latin American journalists found that environmental defenders in Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, and Panama face coordinated online harassment, doxxing, and death threats designed to discredit them, yet most countries lack adequate legal protections against digital violence.