Emilia Ventura is a member of the Indigenous Municipal Council of Nahuaterique & Commission on Women's Rights of the National Coordination of MILPAH - the Movimiento Independiente Indígena Lenca de La Paz- Honduras – that defends mountains, forests and rivers and was born in response to the irregular concessions of rivers and territories to mining companies and hydroelectric projects in their lands. The General Coordinator of MILPAH, Felipe Benítez, denounced in February 2019 that Emilia Ventura was threatened by a person not local to her community, and allegedly member of the group of National Party activists that supposedly have contacts with members of the army of the Tenth Battalion. He told her:" I've been waiting for you, bitch, I came here!". Faced with the verbal threat Emilia left the village to file a complaint with the police. Felipe Benitez explained that this was in the context of several security threats in recent weeks, as the situation has been getting worse since the Chinacla river and other rivers of La Paz were concessioned (there are 12 concessions). He also said the president of the Honduran Association of Renewable Energy, Elsia Paz, recently gave TV statements against the indigenous communities that oppose the hydroelectric projects. He also said there allegedly existed a list of names of leaders to be killed by paramilitaries - similar to one that was circulated in 2009 and two indigenous leaders from the 2009 list were killed in 2014 and 2016.