... Dinant and its hard-working employees continue to suffer from the invasion and illegal occupation of its facilities in the Aguán and Lean valleys. Recently, armed trespassers have shot, injured, and killed our employees.

...Dinant is a constant victim of coordinated and deliberate efforts to spread false information about the Company in an attempt to damage our reputation and gain ownership of land that is legally ours. Such rumors and fabricated claims appear to be driven by political and financial motives. Fortunately, the vast majority of mainstream NGOs and journalists, as well as national Governments, reject the falsehoods written about Dinant.

We categorically deny allegations of violence against any individual or community where we operate.

The facts are as follows. More and more armed trespassers are invading private farms, damaging businesses, stealing produce, and threatening local people and jobs throughout Honduras. These lawless actions have not just affected Dinant, but numerous other property owners, including small peasant cooperatives. The illegal invasions are spreading and increasing, with some farms having been occupied continuously by armed trespassers for over four years. Violent trespassers are preventing thousands of local people from going to work and terrorizing - even shooting and injuring - those who oppose them. Local businesses are suffering from large-scale theft of produce and lost sales. The trespassers are permanently damaging farms and pocketing millions of Lempiras selling stolen produce...