A Honduran activist led a fight against a mining project, which his group says threatens rivers —he was gunned down by masked men in September. Activists and religious leaders assert that at the heart of Juan Lopez’s killing was his fight against an iron oxide mining project with close government ties and a tangle of corruption around members of the Honduran president’s political party. (AP Video/Fernanda Pesce and Megan Janetsky)
He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders
A Honduran activist led a fight against a mining project, which his group says threatens rivers —he was gunned down by masked men in September. Activists and religious leaders assert that at the heart of Juan Lopez’s killing was his fight against an iron oxide mining project with close government ties and a tangle of corruption around members of the Honduran president’s political party. (AP Video/Fernanda Pesce and Megan Janetsky)