On 13 October 2020, two unknown men entered the home of environmental and human rights defender Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo in the municipality of Tocoa, Colón and shot the defender to death. Morazán Erazo was one of the 32 defenders and other individuals in Tocoa who have been criminalised for protesting against a project by Inversiones los Pinares mining company that would affect the local environment and setting up a community camp to defend of the Guapinol River from extractive industry. Morazán Erazo actively participated in activities organised by the Comité Municipal de Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos (CMDBCP) a group which organises the efforts of various groups to campaign against the dispossession of common and public goods by extractive industries. With CMDBCP, he publicly denounced at the municipal level the implementation of mining projects in the Carlos Escaleras Mountain National Park. The mining project, which is alleged to have irregularly obtained its license to operate and is the subject of ongoing criminal investigations, was carried out without the prior consultation and consent of the affected communities.