{"id":6987,"date":"2020-06-24T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=6987&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-06-29T22:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:10:43","slug":"fidel-lopez-was-murdered-member-of-codeca-in-morales-izabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/economy\/megaprojects\/fidel-lopez-was-murdered-member-of-codeca-in-morales-izabal\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Fidel L\u00f3pez, member of CODECA in Morales Izabal was murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Entremundos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 23th, Fidel L\u00f3pez was assasinated, he was 55 years old, born in the community San Vicente de Paul, Morales Izabal and member of CODECA Peasant Development Committee. Several bullet wounds shot by a man from a motorcycle killed him. The murder occurred at four in the afternoon, when Lopez was in a store in his town.<\/p>\n<p>Fidel L\u00f3pez was an active member of CODECA, community defender and his community president. He fought for land access, defense of the territory and for the good living of the peoples through the process of the Popular and Plurinational Constituent Assembly. It\u2019s not the first murder against members of this organization throughout this year. On march 7<sup>th<\/sup>, unknown individuals finished with Dominga Ramos\u2019 life, wife of Miguel Ixcal, (both, members of CODECA) while she was in her house with her daughter-in-law in Las Delicias community, Santo Domingo Suchitep\u00e9quez.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, \u00c1ngel Leonel Guzm\u00e1n Mat\u00edas, another member and activist from CODECA in Morales Izabal, died in November of last year when unknown individuals shot him from a vehicle, while he passed across a road in the mentioned municipality. Guzm\u00e1n had had a tireless fight for the access to land in his community. He was the tenth murdered leader of this organization in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Just as CODECA, other social organizations that make direct pressure on companies and governments, have had severe retaliation in the recent years, especially on issues such as the fight for land, hydroelectric plants, mining and monocultures. As a means of communication promoting the defense of human rights, Entremundos stands in solidarity with these organizations and commits to support the dissemination of complaints and demands from the civil society organization and citizens in general related to the protection of their human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Entremundos On June 23th, Fidel L\u00f3pez was assasinated, he was 55 years old, born in the community San Vicente de Paul, Morales Izabal and member of CODECA Peasant Development Committee. Several bullet wounds shot by a man from a motorcycle killed him. The murder occurred at four in the afternoon, when Lopez was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,453,412],"tags":[2130,2154,2153,2155],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-action-en-2","category-frontpage-en","category-megaprojects","tag-codeca-izabal","tag-codeca-leader-murdered","tag-fidel-lopez-assasination","tag-human-rights-activists-killed-in-guatemala"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/14650773_196276784143656_218980587454442380_n.png?fit=884%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ljt7-1OH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2505,"url":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/politics\/repression-against-codeca-the-criminalization-of-organization\/?lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":6987,"position":0},"title":"Repression against CODECA: The criminalization of\u00a0organization","author":"EntreMundos","date":"31 marzo, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Leiria Vay -- Comunicadora social de CODECA EM: See the Editorial Note for context. 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