On April 24, the general secretary of the Workers’ Confederation of Honduras (CTH) was shot 16 times by six masked men and killed, along with another trade unionist and her motorcyclist on a well-traveled road east of San Pedro Sula.
The murder of Rosa Altagracia Fuentes and her fellow union leader Virginia García de Sánchez and motorcyclist Juan Bautista Gálvez is an act of violence the type of which is rare in Honduras. It comes as violence against trade unionists has been rapidly increasing in Guatemala, and Panama.
The Honduran murders have been denounced by the international trade union movement which, along with the Honduran trade union movement, is demanding a full investigation.
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