Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante, a Honduran Indigenous activist, member of the Lenca Indigenous community who helped led a fight against the construction of a dam has been killed. He was gunned down in front of a church in the town of Nueva Granada, in the Caribbean coast province of Cortes. Cerros Escalante led a local group called “Communities United,” which was active in hamlets near the Rio Ulúa and which opposed the El Tornillito hydroelectric dam.