I am just back in Tegus after three days at the International Encuentro in Tocoa, Aguan with particIPANTS from Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador.

It was a huge privilege to meet so many amazing Honduran HRDs who are working in an incredibly dangerous and difficult environment where they face threats from the state, narco-traffickers, land owners (a couple of large scale landowners in particular) and their private security firms.

The military pretty much suspended their activities in the area for the few days so that all of us foreigners would wonder what all the fuss is about.

We had the amazing opportunity of visiting two of the communities who are fighting to protect their land and have faced forced evictions, attacks, homes being burnt out etc. We also met Sandra, a 5 year old girl who has become somewhat of a symbol of the campesino movement's struggle. She was present on 10 June last year when her community of Rigores had their homes burnt out, and she tells stories and sings songs about it.