The Tolupán people continue paying with their blood to defend - TopicsExpress



          

The Tolupán people continue paying with their blood to defend their land and natural resources. On Sunday August 25, 2013 at about 4:30 pm in the tribal community of San Francisco de Locomapa, in the Department of Yoro, Armando Fúnez Medina, Ricardo Soto Medina, and Maria Enriqueta Matute were killed. They were murdered for being part of a group of indigenous people belonging to the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ, in its Spanish acronym), who opposed the illegal logging of the forests of their tribe, the illegal installation of an hydroelectric dam that has not had an Environmental Impact Study done on it nor has consent been granted for its construction by the tribe, and for opposing the illegal extraction of antimony(1) in different locations in the mountains of the tribe exploiting the margins of the law.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:38:41 +0000

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