
Miryam Vargas Teutle
HRD
Miryam Vargas Teutle is a Nahua indigenous communicator and woman human rights defender from the Choluteca region. She is a member of the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua de Morelos Puebla y Tlaxcala (FPDATMPT) where she has been working since 2010 in defence of the territory against the energy megaproject Proyecto Integral Morelos. Because of their work, members of the FPDATMPT have faced various human rights violations such as judicial harassment, imprisonment, death threats and assassinations such as that of human rights defender Zamir Flores Soberanes.