Margarita Murillo

Margarita Murillo (1958 - 27 August 2014) was a Honduran human rights activist. She was an advocate for the environment and an icon of the peasant defense for their lands.

Biography Murillo was the mother of Kenia Murillo, Franklin Octavio, Samuel David Flores and Margarita Montserrat. This event led her into exile. She also defended national sovereignty. Murillo was one of the founders and coordinator of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) after the 2009 coup d'état. Murillo led the seizure of the central park of San Pedro Sula.

In 2013, Murillo was a candidate for Deputy of the National Congress, for Cortés, in the general election, representing Liberty and Refoundation coordinated by former President Manuel Zelaya.

Death In 2014, Murillo had returned to the field after running for election campaigns. She had suffered from diabetes. On 27 August, she was killed, shot in the forehead after defending herself, by a hit man while working the land on the North Coast of Honduras, in Planón, Villanueva, Cortés. Murillo was legalizing the ownership of her plot in El Venado. The suspects in both crimes were also murdered. David Edgardo Ordoñez, an alleged hit man, was killed by suffocation while in police custody. On 17 September, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged the Honduran government to conduct a due diligence investigation into her murder, but to this day her case remains unpunished.