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- ↑ "Félix Vásquez: Honduran environmental activist killed". BBC News. 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
- ↑ "'There Are No Investigations Here': Impunity for Killings and Other Abuses in Bajo Aguán, Honduras". Human Rights Watch. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ "A New Pact to Defend Latin America's Environmental Activists". Open Society Foundations. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2020.