Video still from Canal6HN: “Allegations have been made that the director of INFOP failed to reinstate the union president despite a government order”.
The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project accompanies Dina Meza, a journalist, human rights defender and the director of the Association for Democracy and Human Rights in Honduras (ASOPODEHU).
On August 14, Meza posted a three-page media release, jointly released by ASOPODEHU and, on social media that begins by stating:
“No more excuses or breaches of the law: we demand the reinstatement of Esteban Antonlino Diaz”
“The Association for Democracy and Human Rights (ASOPODEHU) and Young Promoters and Defenders of Human Rights (JOPRODEH), in light of the ongoing systemic human rights violations suffered by the president of SITRAINFOP, Esteban Antonlino Diaz, wish to bring the following to the attention of the national and international community:
1.Since February 2025, during the government of Xiomara Castro, the National Institute for Vocational Training Workers’ Union (SITRAINFOP) and its main leaders, including its president Esteban Antonlino Diaz, have been subjected to a series of arbitrary and illegal actions by the INFOP authorities, headed at that time by its director Carlos Suazo.”
“Compliance with the labour authority’s provisions is not optional: it is a state obligation. Labour justice cannot be put on hold any longer, and revictimisation must stop. Esteban Antonlino Diaz must be reinstated immediately and allowed to take up his post as president of SITRAINFOP, as decided by the General Assembly of workers affiliated to this trade union.
Freedom of association is non-negotiable.”
Peace Brigades International has accompanied Meza since May 2014.
Additional reading: Contradictions in the application of the labour law in the Asfura government put legal certainty in jeopardy (Dina Meza, Pasos de Animal Grande, August 14, 2026).
