Radio Mundo Real

Juan Ramón Chinchilla is an activist of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA) and the National Front of National Resistance (FNRP) in Honduras. He was kidnapped on January 8th, when he was getting out of a shopping mall in the community of La Concepcion and he was held in captivity for the following 48 hours.

He managed to escape. Honduran media reported that when he was found he had signs of torture, beatings, burned hair and arms.
“There were many people, almost all of them were wearing military uniforms or uniforms of the police or private security guards of Miguel Facusse”, he said in an interview with journalist Giorgio Trucchi, published today by la Rel-UITA

Facussé is notorious in Valle del Aguan. He is a palm oil businessman, purportedly responsible, together with his private army, for most of the murders and human rights abuses happened in that part of Honduras.

Both MUCA and the FNRP have reported Facusse to the international community as well as other businessmen of the area. They also warned about him being complicit of Porfirio Lobo’s dictatorship.

In the interview with Rel-UITA, Chinchilla explained the incidents of his kidnapping. “They lifted me and showed me a table where they had torture tools. They began to use them. They would say ‘What shall we do first? Are we going to remove a finger nail or are we going to burn him?’”

Then the peasant leader said he was hit on the face, his hair was burned and they threatened to set him on fire. “There were many foreigners. Some would speak English, the rest would speak a language I didn’t understand”, he added.

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