Rapid Response Network

murder of Doctor Cristian Camilo Julio Arteaga, age 24, in El Bagre in the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia Department. He had just ended his shift on May 11 and was on his way to his home in Caucasia to celebrate mother’s day with his family when two men on motorbikes ambushed him on a main road and shot him.

murders of five community leaders, including three indigenous community members, which have occurred in the last month.

death threats toward, nonconsensual surveillance of, and attempted attack on Quelvin Jimenez, lawyer of the indigenous Xinca People in San Rafael las Flores in Santa Rosa Department.

constant threats and attacks against Rosalina Domínguez, Finance Coordinator for the Indigenous Council of Río Blanco in Intibucá Department, her four sons (ages 16 to 30), and two other members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).

death threats against the Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Force of Wayuu Women) inLa Guajira Department.

continuing murders of former members of the now dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and their families. On April 14, seven-month-old Samuel David Gonzalez Pushaina was killed in the municipality of Maicao, in La Guajira Department. His father, Carlos Enrique Gonzalez, age 23, was a former FARC member. Several hooded men ambushed his family when they went from their home in Simon Trinidad, Cesar Department, to visit Samuel David’s grandmother in Maicao. The child died on the way to the hospital. His parents, also injured, are recovering.

murder of indigenous environmental defender Luis Armando Fuentes Aquino inSan Francisco Ixhuatán municipality in the Isthmus (Istmo) of Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca State

murder of trade unionist and rural peasant rights defender, Nixon Willington Valencia in San Miguel, in Putamayo Department.

assassination of agricultural labor leader Policarpo Guzmán Mage, a trade unionist and human rights activist who was murdered in Argelia, in Cauca Department.

Recent attack on human rights workers and their families in Honduras. This case is especially shameless as a 90-year-old woman was one of the victims. Injured in the attack by police was the mother of Hedme Castro, director of Asociación para una Ciudadanía Participativa (ACI PARTICIPA) in Choluteca, where residents have been protesting government policies that open up land to extractive activities, such as mining.