This 72-page repor examines 29 homicides and two abductions in Bajo Aguán since 2009, as well as human rights violations by soldiers and police. Human Rights Watch found that prosecutors and ...

The Aguan Valley erupted in protest. In late 2009, thousands of peasants occupied more than two dozen farms owned by large landowners. The standoff grew violent, as rural workers fought big ...

A campesino on recently flooded land in Bajo Aguán. Land disputes have been ongoing in Honduras since the late ’60s. Today Bajo Aguán is known as the Honduran Killing Fields.

Army soldiers check bus passengers' IDs and search for weapon in the Bajo Aguan valley, 600 km northeast of Tegucigalpa, on August 19, 2011. The government is deploying more than 600 policemen and ...

Activism; March 24, 2020; Honduras’s Deadly Water Wars Honduras’s Deadly Water Wars In the lush Bajo Aguán valley, successive land and water conflicts have left over 150 people dead.

AGUAN VALLEY, HONDURAS – At 3, 000 square miles, the Aguan River Valley in northeastern Honduras is about the same size as California’s Death Valley.

Trejo was one of 25 people detained on August 21, 2012, while participating in a protest outside of Honduras’s Supreme Court related to land disputes in the Bajo Aguan Valley.

A farmer active in a land reform movement was killed, and two others wounded, in two shooting attacks in the troubled Honduran region of Bajo Aguan. As El Heraldo reports, three members of the Unified ...

Aguan, however, said his company had a commitment to pay the contribution. “We know the government needs investment funds. Many regional bylaws had been scrapped because they were not in favor ...