Honduras Marks 51 Years Since Los Horcones Massacre

Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 25, 2026 · Originally reported June 25, 2026 by Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)

Victims' families, peasant movement leaders, and Christian Democrats gathered for a mass at Tegucigalpa's cathedral to mark the 1975 Los Horcones massacre, in which 15 people—ten farmworkers and five Catholic priests—were killed during peasant-struggle unrest.

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