The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“’You’re never too young to be a person of integrity,’ says Christopher, general coordinator of ARCAH, after receiving derogatory comments about his age and the work of the #environmental organization during the conciliation hearing with the chicken company El Cortijo, which sued him for defamation.
Christopher defended ARCAH’s efforts to protect the Choluteca River and the public allegations they made against the company regarding alleged #pollution.
During the hearing, in which PBI was denied the opportunity to participate as an international observer, the parties failed to reach a settlement, and the legal proceedings against Christopher remain ongoing.”
Christopher defending the Choluteca River
On May 11, ARCAH had posted on social media:
“Tomorrow Christopher Castillo will appear again in court for a new demand from Mr. Joseph Walter Brenes, owner of the El Cortijo Poultry Company.
Why? Why Christopher, like many voices, said the Choluteca River, is polluted.
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Accompaniment
PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson met with Christopher in Tegucigalpa on October 28, 2024, then again on March 3, 2026.
More about that most recent visit at PBI-Canada and PBI-Honduras visit with ARCAH and learn about the struggle to save the Choluteca River.
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.
Peace Brigades International has accompanied ARCAH since September 2022.
