The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“The @cntctegucigalpa [National Union of Rural Workers] continues to provide training to peasant grassroots groups and indigenous communities through the Margarita Murillo Agroecology School (EAMM).
Participants strengthened their technical and political capacities for the defense of their territory.
During PBI’s visit to their office, the CNTC National Board emphasized the importance of training the country’s youth for the agroecological transition and the right to land.”
Right to land
The National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) is a small-scale farming and trade union organization that fights for the distribution of land. In Honduras fewer than 5% of landowners control 60% of the fertile terrain.
Defence of territory
On April 9, 2026, the CNTC denounced the eviction of peasant families from the ‘7 de Febrero’ farming cooperative. At that time, the CNTC statement noted: “We condemn the excessive military and police deployment, including the use of ‘Black Mamba’ armoured combat vehicles, which were used against humble families, treating them as if they were ‘terrorists’ or highly dangerous criminals.”
Agro-Industrial law
On June 26, 2026, Honduras enacted Decree No. 107-2026, approving the Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-Industrial Sector, Energy Projects, Tourism, Livestock, and Small Agricultural Producers.
United Nations experts, including Andrea Bolaños Vargas, the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, have warned: “Under Decree No. 107-2026, land that had been previously cultivated by cooperatives and subsistence farmers for growing food would effectively be allocated to large-scale agri-business, livestock, energy and tourism activities and would not be subject to agrarian review or ancestral territorial claims. By 1 July, more than 1,000 eviction orders were reportedly issued for thousands of families that had lived on the land for a very long time; some of these orders have since been carried out.”
Accompaniment
Peace Brigades International has been accompanying the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) since May 2018.
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.
Further reading
–Honduran peasant organizations denounce before the UN a legislative decree that legalizes land dispossession in favor of agribusiness (Press release, July 27, 2026)
–PBI-Honduras accompanies press conference that says Agro-Industrial Law could become tool to persecute human rights defenders (PBI-Canada, September 10, 2026).
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