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A Garífuna encampment in Tegucigalpa has maintained a protest for over 70 days demanding that Honduras drop criminal charges against five land defenders arrested during a July 6 police eviction in San Juan and comply with four Inter-American Court rulings.

Garífuna communities on Honduras' Caribbean coast fighting to reclaim ancestral land face intimidation from drug traffickers and organized-crime charges from the state, two years after a 2024 government land-demarcation mission was abandoned under threats.

The ethnic-community organization Odeco launched a project to strengthen land rights, local governance, and economic sustainability in Atlantic-coast Garífuna communities in Colón and Atlántida, with training in human rights and women's leadership.

An international solidarity delegation called on Honduras to enforce four Inter-American Court of Human Rights rulings favoring Garifuna communities, which have faced long delays in implementation.

A prominent defense lawyer argues that Honduras's justice system treats environmental and land-rights activists like high-risk criminals while showing leniency toward powerful figures, citing the cases of Guapinol and five Garifuna defenders arrested in San Juan.

Garifuna and indigenous leaders warn that Honduras's new Agroindustrial Law, designed to strengthen property rights and attract investment, risks displacing ancestral communities whose territorial claims and international protections remain unresolved.