On January 9 2022, in the municipality of San Marcos de Caiquín, department of Lempira, Pablo Isabel Hernández was shot dead on his way to church.

Mr. Hernández was a recognized Lenca indigenous leader who defended and promoted the rights of his people from various platforms: he was director of the Tenán Community Radio, Mayor of the Auxiliary of the Vara Alta de Caiquín, president of the Cacique Lempira Network of Agroecologists of the Biosphere, member of the Network of Human Rights Defenders of the department of Lempira and, in addition, it promoted the creation of the Lenca Indigenous University and the Peoples.

The UN OHCHR has urged the relevant authorities to carry out a prompt, thorough and independent investigation that includes among their lines of investigation the human rights work carried out by Mr. Hernández, and that allows the punishment of those materially and intellectually responsible for this murder to be established.