On 30 September 2023, two members of the National Center of Rural Workers (CNTC) leaders, Cándido Santamaría and Marvin Ávila were accused of the crimes of aggravated usurpation and aggravated damages against Sugar Company AZUNOSA in Yoro, Honduras.

According to the Law Firm Estudios para la Dignidad, the two leaders are being criminalised along with dozens of families "for claiming their right to land and organizing themselves in the Empresa Campesina Agua Blanca Sur". This community initiative has attempted to recover Agrarian Reform lands that farmers have been displaced from by agribusiness. The law firm indicated that the accusations against Santamaría and Ávial is one of several repressive actions that has been carried out by the sugar company and the Public Prosecutor's Office against the farmer movement.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre contacted AZUNOSA. The response can be found here.