The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“The @cntctegucigalpa [the National Union of Rural Workers], accompanied by PBI, visited the peasant communities of Bendición de Dios and 15 de Septiembre in Yoro.
During the visit, they shared their concerns about land disputes and changes in legislation with the ‘Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-industrial Sector,’ which, they say, could lead to the criminalization of their communities.
According to the latest socio-territorial conflict report from @cespadhonduras [Centro de Estudio para la Democracia / the Centre of Study for Democracy], which analyzes 77 cases, Yoro is the second most affected department after Colón. The document states that this is a ‘structural crisis of the territorial accumulation regime’ in which the State ‘does not operate from a position of absence, but rather as an active mediator that facilitates dispossession.’”
On June 24, 2026, Telesurtv.net reported: “A massive front made up of more than 217 peasant, indigenous, Garifuna, feminist and social movements organizations appeared before the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras to file a preventive habeas corpus. The legal action seeks to stop the application of the recently approved Law for the Strengthening, Protection of the Agroindustrial Sector and Energy Projects, under the argument that it puts at serious risk the communities settled in disputed territories and areas of high productive interest.”
That article further highlights: “From the Honduran capital, the social movements warned that they will not stop their agenda of resistance and announced the design of new legal actions, accompanied by mobilizations in defense of territories and natural resources at the national level.”
Avispa Midia also reports: “[Lawyer Edy Tábora, the director of the law firm Justicia para los Pueblos / Justice for the Peoples] explained that the legal appeal is directed against authorities of the three branches of government, including Nasry Asfura, who assumed the presidency recently in January of this year.”
That article adds: “It is also aimed at the heads of the National Police, Armed Forces, the National Congress, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Supreme Court of Justice, ‘for their direct or indirect responsibility in the eventual implementation of measures that could lead to arbitrary detentions, forced evictions and serious violations of fundamental rights,’ the organizations maintain in a public statement.”
Accompaniment
On March 3, 2026, PBI-Honduras, PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson met with Franklin Almendares, General Secretary, and Rosa Santamaría, member of the National Board of Directors, of the CNTC at their office in Tegucigalpa.
The CNTC is affiliated with the Unified Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUTH) which in turn is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), along with 150+ labour organizations including the Canadian Labour Congress.
Peace Brigades International has accompanied the CNTC since May 2018.
