What was going on in Aguan?

My mind has been drifting back to Honduras, but it had been a while since I had followed the developments or news. As I was brushing up on what has been going on in Honduras in the meantime, I came a cross a great article that was but up a couple of days ago. It is a denunciation created by the FNRP, put up by FIAN in regards the the violence and repression that has been experienced throughout the Aguan region over the last several months.

You can access the full article here.

This provides great detail as to exactly what was going on during our group visit to the area. we arrived in Tegucigalpa on the May 15, then to Trujillo on May 19. The trip ended on May 25, 2011. It should be mentioned that another campesino was killed in Aguan four days prior to our arrival in Teguc. Furthermore, the May 18 killing of Sixto Reyes should be familiar to readers as our group visited his community on May 22, 2011.

3. On May 15 of this year, the campesino, Francisco Pascual Lopez, of the campesino movement of Rigores, disappeared; his 10-year-old son who was with him testified to the community that the security guards from the plantation of Miguel Facusse fired at his father. The assassins sent a photo of the assassinated peasant to the Web but his body has still not been found in Aguan.

4. On May 18 the compañero campesino, Sixto Ramos of the MCA was assassinated when he walked to his work in the fields; he was fired on from a double cabin, black vehicle with armed men wearing ski masks, with high-caliber weapons.

5. On May 19, 2011, peasants traveling in a vehicle from the community of Honduras , Aguan towards the municipality of Sonaguera were followed by a grey vehicle loaded with security guards and elements wearing the uniforms of the Cobras, the National Preventative Police, ending when the vehicle of the guards overturned on the side of the road. As a consequence, one of the Cobra police fractured a leg.

6. On Sunday, May 21 of this year, 2 campesinos disappeared: Olvin Gallegos, 17 years old, of the campesino group, Despertar of the Authentic Revindicative Campesino Movement (MARCA) who was on his way to the plantations of Reinaldo Canales and Rene Morales, together with the campesino Secuindino Gomez, 48 years old. Only the bicycle on which they had been traveling was found. To date their whereabouts is unknown.

As I kept reading, I came across some more news about June 5th, 2011 that makes that day even more tragic...