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Indigenous Lenca leader shot dead in Honduras, police say

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Pablo Isabel Hern�ndez was killed on a dirt road near the town of San Marcos de Caiqu�n. Police say the ambush may have been related to personal or political disputes. He was the second Lenca leader killed in less than a year. In March 2020, Lenca activist Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante was shot death.

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Lenca indigenous leader shot to death in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) - The blood of indigenous leaders ran again in Honduras, when a well-known leader of the Lenca ethnic group was shot to death on Sunday in the west of the country. He is Pablo Isabel Hernández, who received several gunshot wounds from unknown persons when he was going to a church in the municipality of San Marcos de Caiquín, department of Lempira, accompanied by a brother and his father.

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Indigenous Lenca leader shot dead in Honduras, police say

Police in Honduras say a local leader of the indigenous Lenca group has been shot to death

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Indigenous Lenca leader shot dead in Honduras, police say

Police in Honduras say a local leader of the indigenous Lenca group has been shot to death

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Indigenous Lenca leader shot dead in Honduras, police say

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Police in Honduras say a local leader of the indigenous Lenca group has been shot to death. Officials say Pablo Isabel Hernández was shot to death Sunday on a dirt road near the town of San Marcos de Caiquín as he headed to a local church. Police spokesman Cristian Manuel Nolasco says the ambush may have been related to personal or political disputes. Hernández was a member of the same indigenous community as Berta C…

2 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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