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Name Crime Date Position Circumstances Source
Eduby Abrego Homicide May 1, 2012 LIBRE - Mayoral
candidate for LaVirtud, Ocotepeque
He was assassinated by being shot four times in the
back by unknown individuals. Abrego had recentlybeen nominated as mayoral candidate for the LIBREopposition party.
Interview with fellow
members of themovement
ErickAlexanderMartinez Avila(32)
Homicide May 7, 2012 LIBRE-FRP streampre-candidatefor Congress,Dept of FranciscoMorazan; Journalist;LGBTI activist
Martinez Avila went missing on May 5th. His bodywas found by the roadside in the northern part ofTegucigalpa two days later. Martinez Avila isreported to have died from asphyxiation resultingfrom strangulation.
http://www.csacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7289&Itemid=258&lang=pt
Jafeteh StevenPinedaHernndez(23)
Homicide May 7, 2012 Activist in theMovimiento 28 de
June(28 JuneMovement ) of LIBRE
He was found mortally wounded in the El Centrodistrict of San Pedro Sula. He belonged to the 28June opposition movement. He died an hour later inMario Catarino Rivas Hospital.
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EdilbertoSolano Meja
Homicide May 8, 2012 LIBRE party - GeneralSecretary of SocialistMorazanist Party(PSM);Regional treasurerfor LIBRE (possibly);
community supportworker;campesino;founder of 15communitiesin Choloma
Meja was assassinated by two individuals on amotorbike in a neighborhood in Choloma, Cortes atabout 4:30 pm. The two individuals were waitingoutside a sports center that Meja managed andattacked him while he was talking on his cell phone.The police considered the attack a robbery as his car
and other personal belongings were stolen. His carwas found later by his family abandoned in the SanMiguel neighborhood in Choloma.
http://www.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Honduras-matan-a-conocido-dirigente-comunal-de-
Choloma#.UawHZ82DD8E;http://dickemahonduras.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-asesinan-otro-integrante-del-frp.html
Jesus Octavio
Pineda (61)
Homicide May 20,
2012
LIBRE leader in San
Pedro Sula.
Shot at his home in La Pradera, SPS. Pineda was
received a phone call and left his house when he was
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shot 5 times in the head by unknown individuals. Hewas a LIBRE leader in his neighborhood and
surrounding area.
tan-dirigente-de-libre/
Miguel AngelRamos Diaz
Homicide June 7, 2012 LIBRE member; FNRPmember; DeputyDirector of theTechnologicalInstitute of BusinessAdministration(INTAE) inSanPedroSula
Ramos Diaz was gunned down by individuals in ablack vehicle while walking in the street with his 12-year-old son. His son escaped without injuries.
http://www.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Asesinan-a-subdirector-del-Intae-frente-a-su-hijo#.UcnF0c2DAf8
Joel Orellana Homicide June 12,
2012
LIBRE-FRP stream,
member of thepolitical committeefor Catacamas,Olancho; activeMember of FNRP;Coordinator ofBo. El Estadiocommunitycollective,Catacamas
At 1:40 pm, Orellana was shot and killed as he
carried out his daily activities in Catacamas, Olancho.
http://voselsoberano
.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13748:asesinan-Member-del-fnrp-y-Member-de-la-comison-politica-de-frp-catacamas&catid=1:noticias-generales
Carlos JesePortillo Yanes(20)
Homicide June 23,2012
LIBRE member, sonof Carlos Portillo,FNRP leader in
Villanueva,
After an FNRP mobilization in preparation for theupcoming primary elections, Portillo Yanesdisappeared, supposedly kidnapped by three
individuals driving a pick up truck in the Gracias a
Member del FNRPera joven halladodentro de una
bolsa, La Tribuna,
http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/05/21/matan-dirigente-de-libre/http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/05/21/matan-dirigente-de-libre/http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/05/21/matan-dirigente-de-libre/http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/05/21/matan-dirigente-de-libre/http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/05/21/matan-dirigente-de-libre/8/13/2019 Victimas Monitoreo Proceso Electoral 2013 Ingles
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Cortes. Dios neighborhood in Villanueva, Cortes. Histortured body was found the next day in a plastic
bag in a street in the Gracias a Dios neighborhood.His hands had been tied behind his back and he hadseveral wounds on his head as if he had been hitwith a stone or piece of wood.
June 26, 2012,available at:
http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/06/26/Member-del-fnrp-era-joven-hallado-dentro-de-una-bolsa/
JennyConcepcinReyesIzaguirre
Homicide June 24,2012
LIBRE-MRP streamleader; elementaryschool teacher.
Reyes Izaguirre was traveling with four members ofher family including her husband who was alsoactive in the LIBRE-MRP stream, in the Hato deEnmedio neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, when theywere attacked by individuals in a black van. Reyes
Izaguirre was shot in the head and died shortly afterthe attack. Her husband and son were also gravelyinjured, but survived. Both were teachers. Sheworked at the Dionisio de Herrera school inGuanacaste in Tegucigalpa and was originally fromSiria or Cedros.
http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/06/26/pistoleros-matan-a-profesora-su-esposo-resulta-herido/
Ral Varela AttemptedHomicide
July 12,2012
LIBRE-FRP stream,pre-candidatefor mayor,municipality of
Colomoncagua,Intibuca;FNRP activist.
Varela suffered an armed attack by hoodedindividuals as he was driving in his vehicle in thecommunity of Las Flores in the municipality ofColomoncagua, Intibuca. He survived
without any injuries.
http://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl
e&id=4848:frp-libre-de-intibuca-denuncia-atentado-contra-uno-de-sus-activists&catid=95:resistencia&Itemid=334
Adilio AlbertoDubnAlemn (39)
Homicide August 12,2012
LIBRE-June 28thstream,pre-candidate for
mayor in
Dubn was driving a trailer in a community roughly80 kilometers from the north of Guatemala City inGuatemala when he was robbed and killed very early
in the morning on Sunday, August 12.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/
En-un-asalto-en-
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Jutiapa, Atlntida. Guatemala-matan-a-precandidate-
hondureno
Jos MarcosvilaMaradiaga
Homicide August 13,2012
Member of FAPER(Broad Political Frontin Resistance) andhuman rights activistwith CODEH(Honduras HumanRights Committee)
vila was shot 9 times while outside a pharmacy inthe Popular 1 neighborhood in Comayagela,Francisco Morazn.
Ultiman activista de
Derechos Humanos,
La Tribuna, August14, 2012, availableat:http://www.latribuna.hn/2012/08/14/ultiman-activista-de-derechos-humanos/
Gustavo Prez Homicide August 28,2012
Liberal party-Villedastream, local leader
Perez was driving to his property in the village ofOromilaca, Santa Rosa de Copan, Copan, when hewas attacked by unknown individuals who shot himthree times.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Asesinan-a-dirigente-del-movimiento-politico-de-Mauricio-Villeda
Antonio TrejoCabrera
Homicide September22, 2012
Member of FAPER,legal representative;human rights
defender; lawyer
Trejo was shot several times outside a weddingceremony in Tegucigalpa. As he was conducting theceremony, he left the church to answer a phone call
where he was shot. He was rushed to a hospitalwhere he later died. Trejo was a well-known humanrights lawyer, representing one of many campesinomovements known as MARCA in the Aguanregion that, shortly before he was killed, had won alegal case regarding a land conflict between thecampesino movement and large landowners, ReneMorales and Miguel Facusse. Trejo was also involvedin a lawsuit declaring the Model City projectunconstitutional and was a well-known human rightsdefender.
http://defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_co
ntent&view=article&id=2263%3ACOFADEH-y-cejil-denuncian-ante-la-cidh-el-Homicide-del-defensor-de-los-campesinos-antonio-trejo&Itemid=159
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Carlos PadillaGuilln
Homicide September28, 2012
Liberal party-Villedastream, pre-
candidate fordeputy mayor inmunicipalityof San Esteban,Olancho.
Early in the morning, Guilln was shot and killedclose to his home, while at a business premises.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-
Principales/Sucesos/Asesinan-a-precandidate-de-Libre-en-el-norte-de-Honduras
GersonOrlandoBentez
AttemptedHomicide
October 6,2012
Liberal party-YaniRosenthal stream,pre-candidate,municipality ofGuata, Olancho.
Various heavily armed individuals from a vehicleopened fire at the victims between 8.00 and 9:00 pmduring a political planning meeting for an event thefollowing day in the municipality of Guata, Olancho.The attack left various people wounded includingBertez (6 bullet wounds2 in the chest and 4 in
arms/legs), Montaya (several wounds) andMontaya's bodyguard, Fausto Daniel MontayaGuevara.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Atentan-contra-diputado-y-otros-dirigentes-liberales
Fredy NjeraMontoya
Liberal Partycongressman
FranciscoArmandoMerlo Lazo(56)
Homicide October 12,2012
City Councilmember, ElTigre de Salama,Olancho
In the evening, Merlo Lazo was shot and killed alongwith his son, Carlos Emilio Merlo Puerto (33) andVidal Antonio Cruz (47) in the municipality of El Tigrede Salama, Olancho. An individual was later
captured in possession of a weapon belonging toone of the victims.
http://m.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Zozobra-en-San-
Esteban-por-los-ultimos-crimenes
ClaudioRigobertoMndezAcosta (61)
Homicide October 12,2012
National partyleader; father ofMiguel Mendez,pre-candidate for
mayor for Azules
Mndez Acosta died after being hit during cross firebetween two groups of civilians in the neighborhoodof Alto San Esteban, Olancho. Two other people,Dalbino. Bustamante and Eliezer, the son-in-law of
Najera Montaya, who suffered an armed attack less
http://www.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Zozobra-en-San-
Esteban-por-ola-de-
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Unidos stream;husband of the
viceminister ofHealth, Mirian Paz
than a week before, were reported to have beenkilled. Congressman Fredy Najera Montaya (listed
above) was arrested and accused of assassinatingMendez Acosta.
violencia#.UbO2cc2DDWs
ArturoOsegueraCasteada(43)
Homicide October 31,2012
National party -Leader of SalvemosHonduras stream,family members ofpre-candidate formayor, municipalityof El Rosario,Comayagua.
The family of three were killed in Siguatepequewhen Oseguera Casteada was driving, accompaniedby his daughter and grandson as they were on theirway to seek medical treatment for the 2-year oldgrandson. The family got out of the car and tried toflee, but were shot by the unidentified gunmen.
http://www.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Ultiman-a-tres-miembros-de-una-familia-en-Siguatepeque
Mery Onore
OsegueraCastaeda(20)Jose ManuelCastaeda (2)
AbelardoSuazo
Death Threatand PoliceRaid
November1, 2012
LIBRE-FRP stream,pre-candidate formayor, municipalityof Lejamani,Comayagua;
leader of COPRUMHteachers union.
Hooded officers of the DGIC (Direccion General deInvestigacion Criminal/Criminal Investigation unit ofthe National police) and the Cobras Special PoliceForce, broke into his house, threatening andpointing their guns at children in the vicinity
allegedly to check and document serial numbers andinformation from computers that were in the house.Suazo suspects that the break-in had something todo with accusations made by the Minister ofEducation, Marlon Escoto against leaders of theteachers movement.
http://www.defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2305%3Ade
nuncian-a-ministro-de-educacion-de-desatar-una-feroz-persecucion-contra-dirigentes-magisteriales&Itemid=171
EdgardoAdalid MotioFlores
Homicide November3, 2012
LIBRE-FRP stream,pre-candidatefor mayor,
municipality of
Motio Flores was shot and killed outside the LIBREoffice at 9:30 pm shortly after arriving at the officein Sulaco, Yoro after attending a LIBRE party
demonstration. He was a lawyer by profession.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/
Asesinan-a-
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Morazn,Yoro
precandidate-de-Libre-en-el-norte-de-Honduras
Maria LuisaBorjas
AttemptedHomicide
November3, 2012
LIBRE-FRP stream,precandidate formayor ofTegucigalpa;Former Director ofInternal Affairs ofthe HonduranNational Police
At about 9 pm, the daughter of a family friend whowas driving a car similar to that driven by Borjas, wasvisiting Borjas' home when she was intercepted byan SUV that was parked near the house, on theroute that Borjas normally takes to return to herhome. Three masked individuals dressed in bulletproof vests with 'Police' written on the back got outof the vehicle. Borja's friend was driving with thewindow down and when the police saw who wasdriving they said that 'she wasn't the person they
were looking for' and returned to the vehicle andimmediately left the scene. Borjas considers this anassassination attempt and has suffered attemptsagainst her life before.
http://voselsoberano.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14435:comunicado-de-maria-luisa-borjas-candidata-a-alcalde-del-partido-libre-sobre-atentado&catid=24:c
omunicados
Leonel TurciosVilleda
Homicide November 9,2012
LIBRE- MRP stream,Candidate forStanding MayorRepresentative(Regidor Segundo) inthe municipality of El
Rosario, Comayagua.
No details available, only a call for mourning. http://movimientoresistenciaprogresista.blogspot.com/2012/11/acuerdo-de-duelo-9-de-November-de-
2012.htmlAlex Pacheco Attempted
HomicideNovember16, 2012
Member of AzulesUnidos stream,mayoralpre-candidate,municipalityof Sinuapa,Ocotepeque.
Accompanied by 5 people, Pacheco was traveling at11:00am in the sector of La Labor when unknownindividuals shot at their vehicle on an isolatedstretch of road. No one was hurt and one bullet holewas found in the vehicle
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Atentan-contra-precandidate-a-alcalde-de-Azules-Unidos-en-Ocotepeque
PRIMARY ELECTIONS, November 18, 2012 Following this process of internal elections:-
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HectorAguilaldoOrellana (48)
Homicide December 3,2012
UD (DemocraticUnification) Party -Congressionalcandidate.
Following a meeting in Juticalpa, Olancho, Orellanaand Marcos Ramiro Lobo, both of the UD Party, hadjust about reached home when Orellana was shot inthe back of the neck. Police suspect that a knownindividual who was traveling in the back of thevehicle shot Orellana as he reached his home.
http://www.tiempo.hn/sucesos/noticias/ultiman-en-olancho-candidate-a-diputado
ManuelGuzman
Homicide December 4,2012
National Partymayor of themunicipality ofDolores, Octopeque.
Early in the morning as Guzman was driving to work,he was attacked by unknown gunmen who shot himseveral times, killing him. He had just participated inthe primary elections and been nominated as themayoral candidate for the National Party in theNovember 2013 elections
http://proceso.hn/2012/12/04/Caliente/Asesinan.alcalde.de/61007.html
Angel
FranciscoDurnRaudales
Homicide January 17,
2013
LIBRE - founder of
neighborhood-based LIBREcollective;neighborhoodorganizer for theFNRP in the north ofTegucigalpa.
Durn was brutally assassinated along with 5 other
people close to his house. Two masked men, dressedin black, ordered the 6 people to lie face down onthe ground and shot them at point blank range. Theother 5 victims were identified as Dulce Mara CernaMontoya, Gerson Bonilla, Rony Javier Contreras,Heydi Vanessa Flores Snchez and Bryan AdonisAguilar Benavides.
http://www.derechos.
org/nizkor/honduras/doc/represion140.html;http://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5303:comunicado-del-fnrp-por-el-Homicide-de-angel-francisco-duron&catid=51:comu
nicados&Itemid=259WenrysHernndezEscoto
Homicide January 20,2013
National Party -mayor ofmunicipality ofEsquas, Comayagua
Escoto and his father, Edelyz Hernandez Contreraswere killed on a municipal soccer field. Two peoplereceived gunshot wounds. The police initiallyreported that the shooting may have stemmed froman argument between the victims and the twounidentified individuals.
http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/134940/muere-baleado-alcalde-hondureno-y-tres-personas-mas
Wilfredo Paz AttemptedHomicide
March 2013 LIBRE - Congressionalcandidate, Colon;Spokesperson for the
Aguan Human Rights
At approximately 9:20 am, Paz was riding as apassenger on a motorcycle heading to thecampesino community of Rigores on the Left Bank of
the Aguan Valley. As they crossed a bridge, known as
Interview with KarenSpring and Annie Birdof Rights Action
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Observatory. Puente Montago, unknown individuals opened fire10-15 times with AK-27s from a palm treeplantation. Paz has received various death threats onhis phone and has reported many times thepresence of unknown vehicles and individualsfollowing him and parked outside his house inTocoa, Colon.
Carlos FabianVelzquez
Homicide March 13,2013
LIBRE - mayoralcandidate,municipality of SantaMara del Real,Olancho
Velsquez left his home at 8:00 am and was shot bytwo masked individuals on a motorcycle near theSan Francisco Institute in Olancho. He was taken tothe hospital where he died in the emergency room.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Asesinan-a-aspirante-a-alcalde-del-partido-Libre
Juan RamnFlores Bueso
DeathThreat andattacks
May 14,2013
LIBRE -congressionalcandidate;DepartamentalCoordinator ofComayagua
Flores has been victim of 7 attacks, including raidson his house, and shots fired at him and cars he hasbeen travelling in. The Inter-American Commissionon Human Rights has granted him protectivemeasures.
Testimony to COFADEHhttp://www.tiempo.hn/portada/noticias/candidate-a-diputado-solicitara-asilo-por-atentados-y-amenazas
RolandoEspinoza
Attacks May 31,2013
LIBRE -CommunicationCoordinator
in Olancho
Espinoza denounced to COFADEH that he isconstantly being followed by vehicles withoutlicense plates and that he has been shot at by
unknown gunmen, as a result of which he fears forhis life. On May 14 police entered his yard with theintention of taking his motorcycle and it was onlydue to his neighbors support that he was able toprevent them carrying out that illegal act. He filed acomplaint with the Deputy Police CommissionerMendoza Matute, who assured him that he wouldtake up the matter. Then Espinoza denounced thecase to the Criminal Investigation Directorate (DNIC).There they told him that they would call him to
identify those responsible. However, there were
http://www.defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_con
tent&view=article&id=2628:persecucion-sistematica-y-ataques-contra-Members-de-libre&catid=54:den&Itemid=171
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constantly suspicious cars without license plates andwith tinted windows near his home. On May 19. atabout 6pm he went to a LIBRE party coordinationmeeting and at about 8pm he left on his motorbike,but a few minutes later the same suspicious vehiclethat he had seen circling his house started to followhim closely.
Nixon Zniga(28)
Homicide June 12,2013.
LIBRE Party activist Owner of the Gnesis workshop, he was with thejournalist Antonio Tony Quintero at the time ofthe criminal attack in the Morazn neighborhood inTegucigalpa. He died of gunshot wounds after beingtaken to the Teaching Hospital.
http://www.proceso.hn/2013/06/12/Caliente/Muere.el.mec/70144.html Proceso Digital
Testimony toCOFADEH.
Walter DiazPadilla (32)
Homicide June 13,2013
PAC (Anti-CorruptionParty)Mayoral Candidate
for Trujillo
Witnesses said that gunmen on motorcyclesovertook the victim identified as Walter Diaz (32)and the survivor, Dilmar Garay, and one of themshot repeatedly at the vehicles side and frontwindows, with some shots hitting a building in thearea.Diaz, a lawyer, died immediately because he wasdriving the vehicle, while his colleague was injuredand taken to a hospital, where doctors who treatedhim reported that he was out of danger. At the
crime scene were found the bullet cases of a 357-caliber weapon. Both lawyers were working forDinant corporation, which operates in the LowerAgun and which has been involved in a landdispute.Salvador Nasralla, PACs presidential candidate,lamented the crime. We are appalled by themurder of Walter Diaz Padilla, our partys candidatefor Trujillo. On behalf of PAC we present ourheartfelt condolences and call on those responsible
for the country's security to reflect, "said Nasralla.
http://www.latribuna.hn/2013/06/13/acribillan-a-dos-abogados-en-el-bajo-aguan/
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Marvin JoseRivera
Homicide June 15,2013
LIBREmember ofLIBRE Youth;Son of LIBREcoordinator in theSuyapaneighborhood inTegucigalpa
Rivera was assassinated at approximately noon as hewas traveling by motorcycle to help with thepreparations for the LIBRE Assembly with XiomaraCastro that took place on June 16, 2013. Gravelywounded by several gunshots, Rivera died in thepublic hospital in Tegucigalpa shortly after Xiomarasspeech to the Assembly.
http://www.hondurastierralibre.com/2013/06/honduras-atencion-mucha-atencion.html
SoniaLandaverde
Homicide June 21,2013
Liberal party -Prominent activist inRivera Hernandezsector, worked in themayor's office in SanPedro Sula.
Landaverde was killed in the Guamilitoneighborhood in San Pedro Sula. The media reportedthat she was shot after resisting the robbery of herpersonal belongings.
http://www.latribuna.hn/2013/06/21/ultiman-a-una-dirigente-liberal/
TeresaAguiriano
Homicide June 25,2013
LIBRE activist inJuticalpa, Olancho
Teresa Aguiriano was with her sister Silvia Aguirianoand her sisters bodyguard when they were drivingalong Boulevard Los Poetas in Juticalpa, Olancho at7:30 pm. They were shot multiple times withautomatic weapons. Newspapers reported that theywere shot over 400 times by AK-47s. All three werekilled instantly.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Matan-a-esposa-de-Ulises-Sarmiento
SilviaAguiriano de
Sarmiento
Homicide June 25,2013
LIBRE party; Wife ofUlises Sarmiento,
LIBRE & FNRP leaderin Juticalpa, Olanchoand brother of JulioEduardo Sarmiento,formerMember of theCentral AmericanParliament and uncleof Ramon Sarmiento,the current mayor ofJuticalpa; LIBRE
Aguiriano, accompanied by her sister and abodyguard, was driving along Boulevard Los Poetas
in Juticalpa, Olancho at 7:30 pm when they wereshot multiple times with automatic weapons.Newspapers reported that they were shot over 400times by AK-47s. All three were killed instantly.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-
Principales/Sucesos/Matan-a-esposa-de-Ulises-Sarmiento
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Activist, Coordinatorof the neighborhoodcollective.
Lenn BladimirDubn Monge(19)
Homicide August 6,2013
Student leader andLIBRE activist
At 2:10 pm, Lenin Bladimir Dubn Monge (19) waswaiting for a bus, when he was surprised by hisassailants, who shot him once after robbing him.Dubn Monge was taken by the police and militaryto the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital, where he wasadmitted with hypovolemic shock. He was anoutstanding student leader at the Jos TrinidadReyes High School, where he received his secondary
education.
Testimony to COFADEH
Aracely Pavn(39)
AttemptedHomicide
August 11,2013
National party -Mayoral candidatefor Potrerillos,Corts
Pavn was traveling in her vehicle with her brother-in-law, Omar Armando Rivera Meja at 11:40 am inPotrerillos, Cortes, when they were attacked byvarious individuals driving a blue sudan waiting inthe street as Pavon and Rivera Meja left a travelagency. Rivera Meja who was driving, was killed atthe scene of the attack and Pavn was injured bytwo bullet wounds and rushed to a private clinic.
http://www.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Sucesos/Policiales/Honduras-Atentan-contra-candidata-a-la-alcaldia-de-Potrerillos#.UhaIPM2DAf8
Variousmembers ofthe NationalPopularResistenceFront (FNRP,following itsinitials inSpanish),
Atentado August 15,2013
National ResistanceFront of Tegucigalpa
The attacker opened the window of a black Toyotavan, model 4runner and with the number plate PCV7936, aimed as a sniper and fired shots at the groupof people.
Despite this, there were no reported dead norwounded. While participating in a demonstrationcalled by the National Popular Resistance Front(FNRP), a stranger shot toward the people who werepart of the mobilization, reported Globo TV
newscasts.
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The incident occurred in the vicinity of John Paul IIBoulevard when protesters were leading up to thelower levels of the National Congress in order tostage a protest.
Daniel AntonioHernndezBustillo (39)
Homicide September13, 2013
Active member ofLIBRE and candidatefor president ofColprosumahteachers union.
School principal in the community of Chorrera UpperAguan Valley. He was shot when arriving at a houseat 9:00 p.m. in Monte Fresco district of Olanchito,Yoro
Interview with EveraldoMartnez
Freddy Lemus Homicide September14, 2013
National party -Mayor of SantaLucia, Intibuca;
Mayoral candidatefor National Party
Returning to his house after attending a politicalevent, Lemus was attacked in a solitary place andkilled by unknown individuals.
http://www.tiempo.hn/sucesos/noticias/asesinan-al-alcalde-de-
santa-lucia,-intibuca
Terensio Paz Homicide October 2,2013.
LIBRE party -Deputy CampaignCoordinator in thenorth of the
municipality of LaIguala, Lempira
Paz was assassinated in the Linderos village byheavily armed men. On September 26, a weekbefore he was killed, two men on a motorcycle werewaiting for him by a crematorium, but that time Paz
managed to evade death.
Defensores enLinea.com andinterview with EdwinOsorto, a teacher.
Jos ReinaldoMontfar (41)
Homicide October 6,2013
An active LIBREmember
The victim was driving a dumper truck, from whichhe sold sand, down a street in the Las Palmasdistrict. Witnesses state that four men, with highcaliber weapons, stepped out in front of him, forcedhim to get out of the truck, and then shot himrepeatedly.
http://www.tiempo.hn/sucesos/noticias/lo-bajan-de-volqueta-y-luego-lo-acribillan
ElvinHernndez
(46)
Homicide October 16,2013
LIBRE - reserveCongressional
candidate in
He was intercepted by men on a motorbike whoshot him. He died instantly. He had previously been
the victim of attempts on his life.
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ManuelMurillo Varela
Homicide October 22,2013
Member of LIBREparty
Found executed with three gunshot wounds to theface, in Independencia district in Comayagela inthe capital.
C-Libre Alert 00066-2013 October 24, 2013
MarcosLevern (55)
Homicide October 22,2013
Deputy mayor of LaMasica municipality,Atlntida
He was shot dead by unknown gunmen on his farmin Aguas Calientes sector, La Msica.
http://www.laprensa.hn/inicio/393559-96/honduras-asesinan-a-vicealcalde-de-la-masica-atlantida
Luis Galeano Homicide October 29,2013
CatacamasActive member ofthe LIBRE party, hewas the leader of theFRP, in the Bo. ElEspino, the placewhere the Zelaya
Castro family havetheir house.
Attacked by shots a few metres from his workplace,on Avenida Independencia, in the center of the city.The former agent was serving as a security guard inthe Catholic school San Francisco de Asis'' and wasoutside the school when an individual, withoutsaying a word, shot him, which killed him instantly.The police detained a suspect for further
investigation, while relatives of Beltrand Galeanoclaimed that their relative did not have any type ofpersonal problems.
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WilfredoFlores
AttemptedHomicide
October 30,2013
Liberal partycouncillor, currentlya militant in the
LIBRE party. He had
He was in his home in Colonia Trejo of the city andwent out to put his vehicle into the garage of hisresidence. Doing this, he observed a suspicious
individual who approached him as he opened the
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denounced allegedacts of corruptionwithin the San PedroSula municipality.
S.P.S
gates."The man approached me and pulled out his 9mmpistol, pointed it at me and said 'I was looking atyou.' I started shouting 'they are killing me' and randown the street of my passage. When my neighborscame, the man who had come to kill me fled.
Before the incident he had received threatening textmessages.
SantiagoMendoza
AttemptedHomicide
November 2,2013
Volunteer for theAnti Corruption Party(PartidoAnticorrupcin
(PAC)) in the city LaEsperanza inIntibuca.
He was shot on the night of November 1 byunknown persons at a point in Intibuc. Otherleaders of the party Juan Ramon and Carlos Zelaya,were attacked in the neighborhood of La Era of
Tegucigalpa."We are being threatened because they arescratching our cars, breaking the windows and today(yesterday) they threw out of the car a person whoaccompanied us in Brisas del Valle, Cofrada"."in case " ; "they tell them that they will kidnap ormurder them""Some [of our] people tell us that they are offeringthem bribes, offering ten thousand or 20 thousandLempiras, in case they happen to get credentials
and if they do not accept they tell them that theywill kidnap or murder them," said Salvador Nasralla.
http://www.latribuna.hn/2013/11/02/atentan-contra-seguidor-de-nasralla-en-intibuca/
DonatelaMichelettiGirn (21),
AttemptedHomicide
November 5,2013
Daughter of theformer dictatorRoberto Micheletti
The young woman was accompanied by her privatesecurity, when their path was crossed by a vehicle,and they began exchanging shots.
The daughter of the former president of Congress,
Proceso Digital, 05 de
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managed to escape unharmed, although five bulletspierced the Nissan Frontier.National Police sources confirmed the arrest of oneof the criminals, who was injured during the scuffleand received medical treatment in police custody.
JohnnyAlbertoGaldmezCaballero
Murdered November 5,2013
Brother of JosAntonio GaldmezCaballero, NationalParty mayor of SanJos de Copan who isseeking reelection.
Witnesses stated that a little before 8:00 am a groupof masked men got out of a gray van with no licenseplates, and shot at the two men.
Police sources said that in the hail of bullets,Galdmez, a relative and a day laborer tried to run
away from the estate, but the criminals entered theproperty and pursued them until they were dead.
Police established that the mayor's brother's bodywas found with bullet wounds in the head near acreek, a distance of about one mile from where theattack began. Relatives took the bodies and opposedtheir transferal to the morgue of Forensic Medicinein San Pedro Sula. The person who survived theattack refused to testify the facts, authorities said.
The victims are the rancher Johnny AlbertoGaldmez Caballero and his employee Wilmer
Alexander Arnero (26).
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EduardoOsegueraSantos
AttemptedHomicide
November 4,
2013
Mayor ofSiguatepeque,Comayagua
The mayor was
seeking re-election
On Monday he was the victim of an attack at home,where several individuals arrived who fired severalshots and left a sign that reads "you are warned".He has been the victim of threats for severalmonths, and he revealed last night that he was
ambushed when he was visiting some communities
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as candidate of thePatriotic AllianceParty, after leavingthe ranks of theNational Party.
in Siguatepeque.
Oseguera Santos indicated that the threats came
from supporters of the National Party.
In the face of the complaint, the general manager ofthe [National Party] campaign in Siguatepeque,Carlos Estrada, discredited the link between theNational Party leadership and the partys supporters,
in the attack on the mayor.
Carlos Prez Homicide November 6,
2013
Aspiring councillorfor the municipality
of San Pedro, Copn,for the Liberal Party.
The criminal act was committed in the highway inthe department of Lempira when Prez was driving
his vehicle and was intercepted by the attackers whotook his life by inflicting various bullet wounds.
Proceso Digital
Roberto Rivera Attemptedhomicide
November15, 2013
Candidate forCongress for theAnti-CorruptionParty (PAC), in thedepartment of Yoro
Roberto Rivera denounced that an attempt wasmade on his life while he was driving his vehicle towork.
I am nervous, the attackers, transported in a blacktourist vehicle, shot at my car as I was driving towork. Thanks to God Im alive and they did notsuceed, related Rivera.
Proceso Digital
Death Threats
Pedro Rafael
Alegria
Death
Threat
July 6, 2013 LIBRE
Congressional
On July 6, 2013, COFADEH received confidential
information about new plans to assassinate Rafael
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Moncada candidate forFrancisco MoraznDepartment
Alegria. According to the information received, onJuly 3, 2013, a police officer reportedly hired an ex-convict to carry out the murder.
AnselmoRomero Ulloa
DeathThreat
July 20, 2013 LIBRE - Congressionalcandidate forComayaguaDepartment.
Confidential information revealed that there was aplan to kill him, which was allegedly going to becarried out on July 25, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
Testimony to COFADEH
Juan OrlandoHernandez
DeathThreat
September25, 2013
National Party -President ofCongress andpresidentialcandidate
He said he was sent a message through the relativeof a Congressman, who said to him: "Look, morerespect - here no one is above the law. Hondurasneeds peace and quiet ". He said , "A line has beendrawn in the sand", and when Juan OrlandoHernandez asked the source of this intimidation, he
flatly answered "organized crime".
Media
Vctor HugoTejedaHernndez
DeathThreat
August 28 &September10, 2013
LIBRENominatedas councillor(regidor) for LasVegas municipality.Activist in the FNRPfrom 2009.
He was threatened with the following - "WARNING23112013, a drawing with a cross and a geometricshape in the form of an inverted 8 by the wordDeadline, and a message that said Victor H.Tejeda and Chano Cerbellon are going to diebecause youre blabbermouthsits already beendecreed. Wherever you are, youre going to be killedfor being LIBRE supporters and then Mate, saveyour life for Gods sakea policeman working in
Ilama police with people here from ConcepcionNorte have already been paid to do the job.
COFADEH
Esdras AmadoLopez
DeathThreat
October 4,2013
LIBRECongressionalcandidate forFrancisco MoraznDepartment
He reported confidentially that he had beeninformed that he had to take care because he wouldbe the victim of an assassination attempt.
Interview with the FIDH(InternationalFederation for HumanRights)www.elvoceropopular.c
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GeraldinaIsabel CarbajalLagos
DeathThreat
October 16,2013
LIBRE - Member ofElection Secretariatof LIBRE party
She has been targeted for persecution by men wholook like the police. Last month, an officer from theCerro Grande police station, near her home in
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Tegucigalpa, stopped her and pointed his gun at herhead, shot at the ground and told her that she wasbeing arrested for being disorderly. On anotheroccasion, when she was in the city center with herfriend Luis Rivera, also a LIBRE activist, a man startedto take photos of them. When they saw thishappening they moved away. He had a rolled upnewspaper and moved it around, following them.
Walter OmarSorto Amaya
DeathThreat
September2, 2013
LIBREMayoralcandidate for the cityof Danl
During 2013, he has repeatedly received calls fromprivate telephone numbers which are untraceable,threatening, intimidating and denigrating him. OnAugust 17, 2013 at about 9:26 a.m., he receivedseveral text messages on his cell phone from the
Tigo website which said Who do you think you are,wanting to become somebody overnight?. Put yourrubber boots back on, mate. He received another
message: How can you believe that youre going tobe mayor of Danl ? A country bumpkin like you andfor the first time? And if you both dont watch
your shitty communist tongues were going to makemincemeat out of themand a text message that
said You two are getting in the way. We swear to
you that you wont get to the general elections alive.
We know everything about you.
Testimony to COFADEH.
Beatriz Valle DeathThreat
31 deoctubre de2013
Congressionalcandidate for theLIBRE party andformer Sub Secrataryfor Foreign Relationsin Zelayasgovernment
Alleged plan to kill her. She left the country onOctober 31, 2013.
"There is a plan to attack my life", although she didnot say by whom, and said she filed a complaint withthe Special Prosecutor for Human Rights and to thenon-governmental Centre for Research and
Promotion of Human Rights, agencies that advised
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her to leave the country.
"What we are doing is following the instructions that
these agencies have given us to protect our lives,"said Valle, who aspires to be a deputy of the centraldepartment, Francisco Morazn, in the generalelection of November 24.
Unknownname
Death threat October 31,2013
LIBRE activist. At 8:00 pm the victim was placing posters in theStreet of Yoro, Yoro, when some men that weredriving by motorcycle threatened him/her giving anhour to leave an remove the posters of XiomaraCastro that s/he was putting up. They follewed thevictims car as s/he left. Allegedly the men are the
mayor of Yoros hitmen.
Ninoska Bentezreceived the complaintfrom the cousin of thevictim, who requestedconfidentiality.
MelvinParedes
DeathThreat
November 6,2013
The eventsoccurred onNovember 2,2013
Mayor of SanAgustn, Copn fromthe National Party
The mayor, who is seeking reelection as a candidateof the National Party, complained that last Saturday,he found, attached to the door of his parents house,
which is located in San Agustn in the centre of thedepartment of Copn, an anonymous warningthreatening the lives of his entire family.The warning was created with letters cut from
newspapers and was directed to the mayors father.It reads: Look old son of a bitch, if your son wins, he
dies. In five years six mayors were assasinatedOn Saturday morning, when my mother opened the
door of the house, she found an affixed sign whichthreatened my father and also stated that theywould kill me if I continued in politics,he related.In February an attempt was made on my life as I
was going to Santa Rosa de Copn to bring somepeople to work on my estate. In the incident the
mayors vehicle was shot several times but luckily he
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escaped unharmed.
Search and Seizure
MaraConcepcinOrtega Lanza
Search andSeizure
May 7, 2013 LIBRE activist andneighborhoodcoordinator
A 50-strong police and military squad with twotrained dogs, as part of the so-called OperationFreedom that began on February 8, 2013, illegallyraided the home of Maria Concepcion Ortega Lanza.They filmed the house and people, also tookphotographs.
Testimony to COFADEH
MarcoAntonioRodriguez
Search andSeizure
October 10,2013,
LIBREactivemember and vice-president ofSITRAPANI (NationalChild WelfareAgencyWorkersUnion)
Heavily armed police and military raided the homeafter hours. They searched the house with traineddogs and handcuffed 11-year-old children.
Testimony to COFADEH
Edwin Espinal Search andSeizure
October 22,2013
LIBRE leader in hiscommunity
By order of the Judge, Claudio Aguilar, the PublicOrder Military Police raided the home of EdwinEspinal.There is a document in which an armysergeant is appointed the executing judge for theraid on his house , and it details the characteristics,location and description of Edwin Espinals home.
The document also states that "there is informationthat in the Rovelo house, a LIBRE leader, there areguns, grenade-launchers and drugs ". On October 9he had been threatened that grenades would belaunched at his home and so he had left it.
The legal document provides the coordinates for thehouse, and also states that he is a LIBRE leader andthat he has a flag in his home.
Testimony to COFADEH
Orlando Search and October 17, Party LIBRE Four members of the Preventive Police and one of Testimony given to
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Castaeda Seizure 2013 Coordinator inTejadas Talgua,Lempira department.
the DNIC, identified as Fernando Murcia, who werewearing masks and were driving in a car from themunicipality of Talgua , forced Castaeda 's daughterto open the door of the residence on the groundsthat they were autonomous.
They searched the house and took a gun legally inpossession of Castaeda because he is a merchantand uses it for personal safety. In his house, whichcontains a grocery store and a pool hall, they alsotook 50,000.00 lempiras, money which was to beused to purchase coffee. They threatened his 12year old daughter with being handcuffed and to take
away and detain his eldest daughter.
When Castaeda complained to Mayor MarcosPerdomo over what happened in his home, he wasinformed that the perpetrators were from theAnalysis Section of Tegucigalpa, sent by order ofTiger Bonilla, Director of the National Police. Butthey were assigned to the city of Graciascommanded by Inspector Zavala.
On October 26, the police arrived at his house to
take videos and photos, while his family were out asthey were attending a LIBRE rally called by XiomaraCastro. On October 27 he was stopped by fourpolicemen on the highway to Santa Rosa and anagent asked him whether he was the famous PjaraPinta (a nickname Castaeda was known by manyyears ago). When he responded in the affirmative,the policeman stated: I feel like biting you to death
They searched the car and threatened to take himprisoner.
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RolandoEspinoza
Search andSeizure
October 31,2013
Secretary forCommunications forLIBRE
Breaking Catacamas preventive police beat himwhen he was taking the bike. About 10 police,assaulting him came when his mother called Maria
de la Cruz Avila, also beat Rolando knee and gavehim a rifle butt stomach where it was takenhandcuffed operation Catacamas wing post,remained in detention 4 hours Free lawyers releasedhim. Before leaving four policemen threatened himin the cell, which had denounced assassins if theywere going to kill him and his family. The incidentoccurred 8:00 to 12 noon.
A raid by the Catacamas preventive police, they beat
him as he was taking his bike. Approximately 10policemen were attacking him when his mother,Maria de la Cruz Avila, arrived, who they also hit onher knee. They hit Rolando in the stomach, where hehad had an operation, with a rifle butt, and theytook him in handcuffs to a post in Catacamas. Hestayed there for four hours until lawyers from LIBREwere able to free him. Before leaving four policemenwarned him in his cell that if he complained they hadassasins that would kill him and his family. Theevents occured between 8:00 am and 12:00 midday.
Telephone interviewwith Dina MezaOctober 31, 2013
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