Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Environment and anti-corruption activist Juan López was killed in Tocoa, Honduras on Saturday in the latest attack on environmental defenders in the country. López, who had long received death threats but continued to speak out, was gunned down by motorcyclists while leaving church. Honduran leaders have denounced his killing as murder and vowed to prosecute the perpetrators. No one has yet been arrested.
Carlos Zelaya resigned office amid the scandal. He is the brother of Castro's husband, Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya, who led the country from 2006 until 2009 and serves as her principal adviser. There have also been calls for Castro herself to resign. Amid the national fallout, the video leak also led to debate in Tocoa, a city of more than 100,000 in the country's north, just inland from the Atlantic Ocean.
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