The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“Last week we met with ARCAH to discuss the right to water and the preservation of natural resources, focusing on the Choluteca River. As PBI, we support ARCAH’s work advocating for the communities they serve, and we emphasize that living in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is also a human right.”
On January 21, ARCAH posted “No to the privatization of water in Honduras” and this short explanatory video.
And on January 8, ARCAH posted several texts on the “fight for water” and the threat of water privatization including this one. It says: “This project is supported by international organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and local companies that want to have power over the country’s water. These companies are known as water service providers (EPS), with Ficohsa being the main company that is causing harm to the people.”
Trump, Asfura and water
In November 2025, the Associated Press reported: “On Wednesday, [Nasry Asfura] received the endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump… Trump mentioned on his social network that as mayor [of Tegucigalpa] Asfura helped ‘bring water to millions of people.’”
Asfura was declared the winner of the November 30, 2025, election on December 24, 2025, and was sworn into office on January 27, 2026.
ARCAH
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.”
Peace Brigades International has accompanied the Honduran Alternative for Community and Environmental Vindication (ARCAH) since September 2022.
Further reading
PBI-Honduras accompanies ARCAH in El Merendón as it rejects the privatization of drinking water services (April 22, 2025)
PBI-Honduras accompanies ARCAH at mobilization against water privatization at World Bank in Tegucigalpa (September 14, 2022).
