#Jairo Bonilla

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Aly Dominguez (38) and Jairo Bonilla (28) were two Guapinol water defenders who were killed in January of this year, 2023. Their movement involves organising to protect their rivers from an open-pit iron oxide mining project in the Carlos Escaleras National Park, Honduras.

The families of Dominguez and Bonilla say they were killed by unidentified gunmen after weeks of threats related to their activism. Honduran police have said that Dominguez and Bonilla died in a robbery gone wrong, but family members say their motorcycles and personal belongings were not taken. 

Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15th, 2023.

Every year, environmental defenders are intimidated and killed for the work they do in their communities, and many of these cases never leave the local news cycles or are investigated further. One thing we can do is to not forget their names or contributions.

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Amnesty International: Water Defender Killed

On Saturday, September 14, environmental defender and coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Assets, Juan López, was murdered as he was leaving his work as a community and religious leader in the parish of San Isidro Labrador in the municipality of Tocoa, department of Colón, northern Honduras. According to public reports, Juan López was shot by an unidentified person on a motorcycle. We demand the Honduran authorities to ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of Juan López, as well as other killings and attacks against the defenders of the Guapinol river, to refrain from using the justice system to harass them and to ensure their integral protection.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE UNTIL: November 14, 2024

Several communities, campesino groups, parishes, and local organizations in the municipality of Tocoa (department of Colón), North of Honduras, led by the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Assets (Comité Municipal por la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos, CMDBCP) have opposed the operating license issued to the mining company, Inversiones Los Pinares in the Carlos Escalera National Park, formerly known as Montaña de Botaderos, since 2015. On August 1, 2018, local residents set up the “Guapinol camp” to peacefully protest against the license and mining exploitation in the core zone of a protected area of the water sources on which they depend for their survival.

Members of the CMDBCP have faced at least two criminal proceedings since 2018 for defending the Guapinol and San Pedro Rivers of the impacts mining project. Aly and his brother, Reynaldo Dominguez, as well as Juan López, Leonel George, Marco Tulio Ramos, Eugenio Esquivel, and Adaly Cedillo spent some time in prison in 2019 along with other Guapinol River defenders for these proceedings. The same proceedings led to the unjust detention of eight defenders of the Guapinol river for more than two years solely for peacefully defending the right to clean water.

After rigorous analysis, Amnesty International determined that the case file shows multiple flaws in the investigation and declared them prisoners of conscience. Following a Supreme Court ruling citing violations of the right to due process, the eight defenders of the Guapinol river were released in February 2021. In a separate decision, in June 2022, this court annulled similarly unfounded criminal proceedings against Juan López, Leonel George, Reynaldo Domínguez, Marco Tulio Ramos, and Adaly Cedillo.

On January 7, 2023, Aly Magdaleno, Domínguez Ramos, and Jairo Bonilla Ayala were intercepted by armed assailants as they were returning home and shot and killed on the spot, according to their relatives.

On February 7, 2024, lawyers of the Guapinol defenders were notified that the prosecutor's office in Tocoa had appealed, in December 2022, a favorable resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice that annulled unfounded criminal proceedings against five Guapinol defenders: Juan López, Leonel George, Reynaldo Domínguez, Marco Tulio Ramos, and Adaly Cedillo. A sixth defender, Eugenio Esquivel, appears in the appeal although he is not part of the case in question.

Over the last five years, Amnesty International has been alerted on numerous deaths and other attacks against activists in Honduras, which is one of the deadliest countries in the world to be a human rights defender. Honduras still one of the deadliest countries in the world for land and environmental defenders. Despite the seriousness of the attacks on these defenders, Honduras has not yet signed the Escazú Agreement, the first environmental human rights treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean, which obliges signatory states to protect environmental defenders and entered into force on April 22, 2021.

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Licey anuncia su nómina para la Serie del Caribe 2024

SANTO DOMINGO (Licey.com).- Los bicampeones nacionales Tigres del Licey anunciaron los integrantes de la nómina para su participación en la Serie del Caribe Miami 2024 que se efectuará del 1 al 9 de febrero. Los lanzadores son Jonathan Aro, Fernando Abad, Jairo Asencio, Lisalverto Bonilla, Neftalí Féliz, Brooks Hall, Williams Jerez, Jorge Martínez, Jean Carlos Mejía, Andy Otero, Pedro Payano,…

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Answers sought in killings of 2 Honduran environmentalists

Comment on this story Comment TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The family of one of two environmental activists killed in a rural part of northern Honduras say authorities are not properly investigating the slayings of the pair who had faced threats for their work. Aly Domínguez and Jairo Bonilla were riding a motorcycle between La Concepción and Guapinol on Sunday when they were shot. Both men were…

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Honduran activists demand action after killing of water defenders | Human Rights News

Tocoa, Honduras – The killing of two Honduran water defenders this month has sparked international outrage, with the United Nations calling for an investigation and locals questioning the government’s commitment to protecting environmental activists. Aly Dominguez, 38, and Jairo Bonilla, 28, were members of the Guapinol water defenders movement, organising to protect their rivers from a…

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Honduran activists demand action after killing of water defenders | Human Rights News

Tocoa, Honduras – The killing of two Honduran water defenders this month has sparked international outrage, with the United Nations calling for an investigation and locals questioning the government’s commitment to protecting environmental activists. Aly Dominguez, 38, and Jairo Bonilla, 28, were members of the Guapinol water defenders movement, organising to protect their rivers from a…

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Honduran activists demand action after killing of water defenders | Human Rights News

Tocoa, Honduras – The killing of two Honduran water defenders this month has sparked international outrage, with the United Nations calling for an investigation and locals questioning the government’s commitment to protecting environmental activists. Aly Dominguez, 38, and Jairo Bonilla, 28, were members of the Guapinol water defenders movement, organising to protect their rivers from a…

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UN calls for probe into killing of two Honduran environmentalists | Environment News

UN calls for probe into killing of two Honduran environmentalists | Environment News

Two environmental activists were killed on Saturday after they opposed an open-pit iron oxide mine in a reserve. United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor has called for an independent investigation into the killing of two environmental activists in Honduras, days after they were shot dead. On Saturday, Aly Dominguez, 38, and Jairo Bonilla, 28, from…

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Urgent Action: Water defenders killed in Honduras

Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023. Five months earlier, defenders Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the resistance of Guapinol against an iron ore mine, were also found dead.

In February 2023, six other defenders of the Guapinol river found out that they could face criminal prosecution for peacefully questioning the legality of a mining project in the Carlos Escaleras National Park.

We demand the Honduran authorities to ensure a prompt, thorough and impartial investigation of the attacks against the defenders of the Guapinol river, and to refrain from using the justice system to harass them and to ensure their protection.

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Aly Domínguez and Jairo Bonilla, co-founders of grassroots resistance group to iron ore mine in Guapinol, murdered in streetTwo environmental defenders have been shot dead in broad daylight in Honduras, triggering fresh calls for an independent investigation into the...

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Licey anuncia su nómina para la Serie del Caribe 2024

SANTO DOMINGO (Licey.com).- Los bicampeones nacionales Tigres del Licey anunciaron los integrantes de la nómina para su participación en la Serie del Caribe Miami 2024 que se efectuará del 1 al 9 de febrero. Los lanzadores son Jonathan Aro, Fernando Abad, Jairo Asencio, Lisalverto Bonilla, Neftalí Féliz, Brooks Hall, Williams Jerez, Jorge Martínez, Jean Carlos Mejía, Andy Otero, Pedro Payano,…

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Instalan autoridades de la Muy Respetable Gran Logia de la República de Venezuela Caracas.- (Especial) Este sábado 21 de febrero a partir de las 09:00 a.m. se realizará la Gran Tenida de Instalación de las Autoridades 2020 - 2023 de la Muy Respetable Gran Logia de la República de Venezuela, en el Gran Templo de la Masonería Regular ubicado entre las esquinas de Jesuitas a Maturin en Caracas Nro 05. Es importante recordar que recientemente, y con una  histórica participación nacional por parte de los diputados de todas las logias jurisdiccionadas a este Gran Oriente de Venezuela y en un ambiente de fraternidad el Querido Hermano José Sardelli resultó Gran Maestro electo para el período 2020-2023. Junto a la plancha del proyecto 20 - 20. A la tenida de instalación asistirá una representación del Gran Oriente de Brasil en la persona de su embajador de buena voluntad, el querido hermano Antonio Quinto. Gran Oriente de Panamá, quienes serán nombrados Garantes de Paz. La Gran Logia de la República de Venezuela es una institución masónica mundialmente reconocida que cuenta con el reconocimiento del Gran Oriente de Inglaterra,  siendo uno de los Grandes Orientes que práctica solo el Rito Escocés Antiguo y Aceptado. GRANDES AUTORIDADES ELECTAS DE LA M∴ R∴ GRAN LOGIA DE LA REPÚBLICA DE VENEZUELA A continuación, el cuadro de las GG∴ DDig∴ y GG∴ OOf∴ electos en la Gran Tenida de Escrutinio, celebrada, hoy, 9 de febrero: Gran Maestro: I∴ P∴ H∴ JOSÉ SARDELLI BRAVO G∴ Maestro Adjunto: I∴ P∴ H∴ MARIO HERNÁNDEZ P∴ G∴ Vig∴: R∴ H∴ LUIS EULACIO S∴ G∴ Vig∴: R∴ H∴ ENRIQUE EXPÓSITO G∴ Orador F∴: R∴ H∴ VICTOR JANSEN G∴ Sec∴ G∴ S∴ T∴: R∴ H∴ EULOGIO JIMÉNEZ G∴ Tes∴: R∴ H∴ JOSÉ CASTILLO G∴ Hosp∴: R∴ H∴ JESÚS ALBERTO NORIEGA VILLARROEL P∴ G∴ Exp∴: R∴ H∴ CARLOS MOTA S∴ G∴ Exp∴: I∴ H∴ NICÓMEDES BONILLA P∴ G∴ M∴ Cer∴: R∴ H∴ GERMÁN PINTO SIMONELLI S∴ G∴ M∴ Cer∴: R∴ H∴ RICARDO VALERY G∴ G∴ T∴ I∴: R∴ H∴ RODRIGO FERREIRA G∴ BBT∴: R∴ H∴ ESTEBAN NARANJO G∴ ORADOR ADJ.: R∴ H∴ ANTONIO GARCÍA G∴ SEC∴ ADJ.: R∴ H∴ GOIMAR SOTO G∴ TES∴ ADJ.: R∴ H∴ CARLOS VARGAS G∴ Hosp∴ ADJ.: R∴ H∴ JAIRO RIVERA ¡HURRA, HURRA, HURRA! (en Gran Templo Masónico (Monumento Histórico Nacional)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B82SWkrnbIC/?igshid=1kop7qelcufz5