The Movement of Victims of State-Sponsored Crimes (MOVICE) reported that on January 25, Humberto Manuel Escobar Mercado, Prisciliano Manuel Mercado García, and Manuel Eusebio Osorio Escobar were shot and killed for trying to reclaim their land. The three brothers’ land was illegally occupied by William Martínez who used force to kick them off of the property in 2016. Using a police warrant, the brothers went to trace the boundaries of their property when three men belonging to Martínez’s private security shot and killed them. This incident is part of a larger pattern of violence against land claimants as they try to return to lands that legally belong to them.