working for wealthy citizens or mines or factories who want to take the land upon which they and their ancestors toiled to eke out a meager living so they and their families could survive. We also know they have the power of the huge businesses and governments behind them, as has been the case for so many generations.
Moral values, honor, etc. all fly out the window for those people when it's time to destroy poor people who were unlucky enough to be living in the space they want to take from them. Easier to hire criminals to murder them than to pay the campesinos the value of their humble homes, and let them safely relocate. Cheaper to be a murderer, even while showing a pompous, phony face to the world of human beings. Hiring murderers to do the dirty work, to look at the men and women and children and old people as they kill them takes all the social awkwardness out of it for the dirty right-wingers.
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The Killing of Margarita Murillo in Honduras
Posted: 08/30/2014 1:00 pm EDT Updated: 08/31/2014 4:59 pm EDT
Margarita Murillo was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in the village of El Planón, located within the municipality of Villanueva in northern Honduras. She was walking to tend a plot of land near her home when she was confronted by three men wearing ski-masks. Her body was found lying beneath a mango tree by members of the Asociativa Campesinos de Producción Las Ventanas (Window Production Peasants Association), made up of at least 23 peasant families who have been involved in a legal dispute over properties in the area.
According to Domingo Orellana, who was one of the men who first discovered Mrs. Murillo's body, said, "About four months ago, Margarita had been named president of our group, and we have no idea who could have murdered her." In April, Raymundo García, who was the association's treasurer, was also murdered.
Apparently, Mrs. Murillo had been receiving death threats.
Mrs. Murillo, 56, was the mother of four children. One of her children, 23-year old Samuel, was kidnapped on July 26 by soldiers from his home in the village of Marañon, just south of the city of San Pedro Sula. His whereabouts remain unknown. Mrs. Murillo's husband, Oscar, was shot in the leg by a soldier during a protest in which peasants were blocking the highway in the city of Choloma.
"We are scared for our lives; we are poor people who dedicate ourselves only to working the land to support our families," said one of the peasants who arrived at the crime scene.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marco-caceres/the-killing-of-margarita_b_5736820.html
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