Prominent Honduran Rural Leader Under Police Protection Killed

Prominent Honduran Rural Leader Under Police Protection Killed



MUCA's President Jose Angel Flores was assassinated today. | Photo: Facebook

Published 18 October 2016


According to campesino organizations, at least 150 rural activists have been killed so far in the area, as a result of fighting for their land rights.

Honduras' prominent rural leader and head of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguan Valley, or MUCA, Jose Angel Flores was assassinated in Tocoa, in the northern department of Colon, reported teleSUR's correspondent in Honduras Gerardo Torres Monday night.

The information was confirmed by MUCA's former President Johnny Rivas on Radio Progreso, without further details. Rivas blamed the assassination on the forces opposing the rural struggle for the right to land.

Flores had been under police protection since March, after many death threats.

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