Embassy of Honduras in Mexico
Mexican Consulate in Honduras
Inter American Commission on Human Rights
Early this morning, March 3, 2016, armed individuals forcibly entered and assassinated Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, founder of COPINH, in her home in La Esperanza, department of Intibucá in southwestern Honduras.
Our friend and colleague Gustavo Castro Soto was injured during the attack. Gustavo is Mexican and a member of the organization Otros Mundos Chiapas/Friends of the Earth-Mexico, the Mexican Network of Mining-Affected Peoples and the Mesoamerican Movement against the Extractive Mining Model (M4). Gustavo survived the attack and has become a key actor in the investigation into the murder of our friend Berta.
Berta and Gustavo are two people known for their role in international social and environmental struggles, evidence of their dedication to defending the rights of Indigenous and campesino peoples, who have accompanied processes of organized and peaceful resistance to prevent territories within Mesoamerica from being appropriated by regional governments at the service of the neoliberal project being implemented through extractivist projects, considered projects of death.
In the context of the terrible assassination of the much loved Berta Cáceres, we call on the government of Honduras to pay immediate attention, to intervene, and to follow up on this devastating moment for the Honduran people. We also call for all legal and political measures possible to guarantee the immediate protection of our friend and colleague Gustavo Castro so that, once he has given his testimony to the Honduran state, he can safely return to Mexico.
Right now, it is fundamentally important to guarantee the life of our colleague Gustavo Castro given the risk he faces a key witness to this horrible assassination.
The security of all of the members of the Coordinating Group of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) must also be guaranteed.
Attentively,
Mesoamerican Movement against the Extractive Mining Model
Mexican Network of Mining-Affected Peoples
Otros Mundos Chiapas
Esta es una action destructivo para todo el mundo…protectar los persones que puedo commentar y describer estos en la systema justicia como Gustavo Castro y otros por favor. Esta es muy importante para nosotros y muchos personas y la terra y agua y animals y aves. Muchos gracias, Senora Susanna Hare, Canada
Please mobilize and guarantee the safety of Gustavo Castro, and work diligently to stop the violence toward environmentalists who are working to save the world for future generations, including YOUR grandchildren!!
Please allow Gustavo Castro Soto to leave Honduras for his own safety.
Ya no hay luchas aisladas! Se acabaron! Firma, comparte, divulga… Agrieta el capitalismo,morganizarse es la respuesta. Cuando las mujeres nos organizamos las cosas cambian! El poderoso temeroso. D.
I support this petition
I support the demands of this urgent action.
I support the release of Gustvo Castro
Please act for the security of Gustavo Castro. Please bring these killers to justice.
If Mr. Gustavo Castro has given his testimony to the state then there is no legitimate reason for the State of Honduras to continue holding him.
Writing from Scotland in support of Gustavo Franco. The world is watching this travesty of justice.
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) also calls for the immediate protection of Gustavo Castro! We call for justice for the murder of Berta Cáceres! No to Imperialist Mining and Plunder of Resources!
We will dedicate to Berta the Global Action on ‘Day of the Landless’ on March 29 being organized by APC and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 6.
I support this petition!
I support the immediate release of Gustavo Castro
The world is watching the Honduran government and their continued despicable crimes against their own people. Absolutely shameful. Justice for Berta Caceres, Gustavo Franco, and all other Earth Stewards who have the courage to speak out against these crimes against nature and humanity!
Release Gustavo Castro.
Protect Gustavo Castro and everyone else fighting against landgrabbing.
Siemens has to stop their participation in the project as long as opposing parties are threatened and killed!
Best wishes and support from Germany.
I urge immediate protection for Gustavo Castro.
I support this petition to ensure the safety of Gustavo Castro.
I support this petition- protection for Gustavo Castro is urgently needed.
Please provide the necessary protection for Gustavo Castro Soto! Let’s hope some justice will prevail!
Please protect Gustavo Castro.
I support this petition. Ulla Sparrer
I join the call for the release and protection of Gustavo Castro.
I join in the call for the Honduran government to ensure protection and release of Gustavo Castro back home to Mexico.
Defend the rights of indigenous people.
PROTEGER PERSONAS QUE LUCHAN POR NUESTROS RECURSOS NATURALES ES UNA OBLIGACION…..!!!!!!!!!!
Preservation of the environment and the safety of indigenous people absolutely must always take precedence over economic profit to anyone.
Apoyo la petición para la proteción de Gustavo Castro / I support the petition for the release and protection of Gustavo Castro
I support the petition because I know what it means to be under danger, I support the petition because I believe in justice, I support the petition because I am looking for protection and justice too for one of my love ones.
Protección total para Gustavo.
Toto el mundo esta viendo esta injusticia. Ayudenlo vivir!
Protect your citizens please Honduras, the eyes of the world are watching. Governments are watching you, activists are watching you.
People, families and communities are way more special than resources & money.
Protect Gustavo.
Espero que Gustavo regrese a casa sano y salvo
I support this petition. Elisabet Almeda (Universitat de Barcelona)
yo también dejo aquí mi apoyo moral, espero pronto se de la oportunidad de apoyar más concretamente
I support this petition. Christian Fuchs, Vienna
Protect Gustavo Castro! Don’t let the enemies of freedom and justice take another life.
Gustavo Castro has been a tireless defender of the rights of the oppressed and of Mother Earth for many years. We, friends of Gustavo from Australia, call on the Mexican Government to protect the rights of Gustavo and ensure he is able to return home to his family, friends and beloved Mexico.
I support the release of Gustavo Castro and the full demands of this petition.
I support this campaign to save another life from greedy murderous misfits
En apoyo a esta campaña para salvar la vida de otra inadaptados asesinas codiciosos
(google translate)
Stop this
I support this petition.
I support this petition.
I ask for the immediate release of Gustavo Castro, and I support the demands of this petition.
I support the international call for the immediate release of Gustavo Castro!
I support the release of Gustavo Castro and the full demands of this petition.
I want the killers brought to justice, and the witness protected.
The murderers are afraid of the truth about environmental despoliation and the greed behind it. Don’t let them get away with it! Expose the killers and keep up the fight to preserve your forests, your access to clean water and clean air. Keep up the struggle!
Please do whatever is necessary release Gustavo and assure his safety.
Release Gustavo Castro!
You must release and protect Gustavo. The world is watching and demands justice and freedom for all.
I support the freedom of Gustavo Castro. I will be watching this.
Gustav from Denmark
I support the release of Gustavo Castro and the full demands of this petition.
I support this petition as well.