To the national and international community, we denounce the brutal murder of two compañeros of the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO)
On December 20 2006, Heraldo Zuñiga and Roger Ivan Cartagena were extrajudicially executed by National Police agents outside the Mayor’s Office in the municipality of Guarizama, in front of local residents.
On Tuesday, only two days before his murder, our compañero Heraldo had shared his concern about death threats received from Salama-based loggers employed by the Sansone logging company. MAO had denounced these individuals for harassing and threatening to murder Heraldo and others before the tribunals. The Inter-American Human Rights Court ordered the Honduran government to provide protective measures. We now see the results.
The murder was carried out by Salama-based police seargeant Juan Lanza, who brought the two murdered men to Guarizama, where his accomplices finished the job. Considering these facts, there is not much to hope for in a state in which the public security forces are made up of assassins paid by the shadiest interests in the country – the logging and mining sectors. 
