PBI-Honduras visits with ARCAH that continues to denounce company contaminating the Choluteca River
PBI-Honduras has posted:
“Last week we visited @Arcah_hn [the Honduran Alternative for Community and Environmental Vindication] in Aldea Loarque.
The community denounced the contamination of the Choluteca River that has affected their health.
PBI is concerned about the health of the population and emphasises the organisation’s defence of the environment.”
On April 22, El Heraldo reported:
“A group of people protested on Monday against a chicken processing company in the south, since they can no longer stand the pollution and bad smell that emanates from the place.
The demonstrators claim that the Choluteca River, which passes through the sector, is being affected by waste, so they demand the intervention of environmental authorities.
The protest, which coincides with Earth Day, has already caused congestion in the area, so long lines of vehicles can be seen at this time in both directions of the road.
The residents, along with environmentalists, say that for more than seven years, the river has been polluted, while the neighbors are forced to endure nauseating odors.
As part of their demands, the demonstrators are asking Mayor Jorge Aldana to speak out about the situation that afflicts them.”
HCH adds:
“Residents of the Loarque sector come out to defend the Choluteca River because they claim that a company in the sector is destroying it.
The protesters denounce that they have been protesting against this company for seven years because it is polluting the river.
The residents denounce that this company is causing them discomfort in their nose and skin as a result of the contamination.
They hope that authorities will regulate this company that operates in this sector.”
El Cortijo
Defensores en Linea has previously reported: “Villagers have denounced for four years the pollution caused by the poultry company ‘El Cortijo’, its waste is seriously damaging at least four surrounding communities and the Choluteca River, where much of the company’s toxic waste falls.”
The Honduran Alternative for Community and Environmental Vindication (Alternativa de Reivindicación Comunitaria y Ambientalista de Honduras, ARCAH) is a space for community articulation and an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialist and anti-classist social movement that seeks to defend territories and common goods from any project that threatens the peace and cosmovision of communities.
Since its founding in 2017, members of ARCAH have fought against the Jiniguare dam, the El Cortijo poultry company, the Zones for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE) and other projects in Francisco Morazán, Comayagua, Cortés and Olancho, always through resistance and permanent communication with planet earth.
PBI Honduras has been accompanying ARCAH since September 2022.
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