On January 22, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on social media:
“Last week, we observed the Agrarian Platform event in the context of the granting of 14 legal entities in Bajo Aguán. According to Yoni Rivas, spokesperson for the Agrarian Platform, ‘it is a collective victory’. At PBI, we welcome these advances, but we are concerned about the armed attack against the Nueve de Agosto Cooperative, which occurred three days after the event and during which farmer Marvin Ramírez was killed. It is important that in the coming years, progress continues to be made in the search for truth, justice, and reparation for the peasantry in Bajo Aguán, and that the alleged role of agribusiness in territorial conflict is thoroughly investigated.”
AraInfo has reported:
“On the night of January 17, the 46 peasant families that make up the Nueve de Agosto Cooperative, brought together in the Agrarian Platform and the Coordinator of Popular Organizations of the Aguan (COPA), were attacked and displaced by the armed group Los Pechugas, explained Johny Rivas, spokesman for the Agrarian Platform.
Around ten o’clock at night this group attacked by surprise and with high-caliber weapons. During the assault, the attackers fired in the air and pointed guns at people, which caused the cooperative members to move in terror. At midnight, the police and the army entered the farm and managed to evict the criminal group, returning the families of the cooperative on the morning of the following 18th. After the attack, the body of Marvin Ramírez Ramos, a member of the cooperative and killed during the attack, was found.
Plataforma Agraria expressed its conviction that this criminal structure would protect the interests of the Dinant Corporation since some of the attackers stated that ‘they were complying with an order from the company’. On previous occasions, this company has been denounced for carrying out attacks against peasants in the region.”
The full article can be read at: Honduras: regresa la violencia de grupos criminales contra cooperativas campesinas en el Bajo Aguán en medio de crisis política nacional (January 21, 2026).
