How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources

The Guapinol community, on the country's north coast, has become militarized in an effort to defend the river that supplies it

Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to her father in six months, since the Honduran government's draconian Covid-19 measures banned most travel and prison visits.

Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, a 48-year-old builder and farm worker, is one of eight protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, a small low-income community on the country's north coast, could also soon be sent to jail.