The campesino activist Marcos Tulio Cruz Cruz was found murdered with signs of torture in Sonaguera, Colón, on October 9. He was an active member of Bajo Aguán Human Rights Observatory and the Coordination of Popular Organisations of Aguán (COPA), organisations that defend their land and territory against the imposition of economic projects. Two heavily armed men in military uniform stormed had stormed his house the previous night, October 8, threatening his mother and daughter and hitting his brother before abducting him. Another brother of his, Rigoberto Durán Cruz, was an active member of the Human Rights Observatory of the Aguán and COPA, but had to withdraw after persecution and death threats. He continued, however, to support victims of violence on an individual level. As a possible act of repercussion, his brother was killed.