For over a decade peasant activists and water and land defenders in the Aguan Valley have been terrorized, threatened, and murdered at an alarming rate. Most of the killings have been attributed to the Dinant Corporation (African Palm) and Pinares iron mine. With little to no help from a corrupt government, these large corporations are operating with complete impunity in their crimes while peasants who try to protect their land and rights are killed to be kept silent. In Honduras, the deadliest place for environmentalists per capita, the Aguan Valley, could be considered “The Valley of Death”.
