This is one of eleven murders of journalists registered since the coup d’etat staged in June of 2009, which put Porfirio Lobo in the presidency. International human rights agencies demand the regime to clarify these crimes but impunity continues.

All the cases were preceded by death threats that were reported, but the authorities failed to act.

Medina had received phone threats as a result of investigations linked with irregularities in Morazan municipality and with conflicts over lands involving cattle ranchers of the area, the vicechair of the Journalists Guild of Honduras, Jose Santos Galvez told Red Morazanica de Informacion.

“Despite the reports and the complaint filed before the authorities, nothing was ever done and they finally murdered Medina”, said Galvez.

International organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the murder of Francisco Medina and asked Lobo’s administration to investigate the murder diligently and thoroughly.

The human rights violations are a common practice under the Honduran dictatorial regime. On Saturday May 14, the Front of Resistance of Colon Department reported the murder of Pablo Lemus of the Aguan Peasant Movement, in a press release.

The document published on the website of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) says the ones responsible for the systematic “harassment, persecution, kidnapping and murder” of peasants in Aguan are members of the security forces of land owners Reynaldo Canales, René Morales and Miguel Facussé.

Besides Lemus’ death, the press release exposes the recent kidnapping of peasant Alejandro Gomez, who managed to save his life “claiming that he was not a peasant but a worker of a nearby estate”. “Gomez was brutally tortured and left somewhere in the area”, reported the Front of Resistance of Colon.

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