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Those listed in the database include the assassinations of a Honduran activist who protested an open-pit mine in 2020, a Honduran activist who was fighting a new dam on the Ulua River in 2021, and an activist in Cuernavaca, Mexico, who had led protests over inadequate water service.

In Hawaii, I grew up on a street named after a fish — ulua, the biggest of the jacks, a blunt-headed silver bruiser, sometimes weighing more than a hundred pounds, that glowers along the reef.

Cerros Escalante led a local group called “Communities United,” which was active in hamlets near the Rio ����ú�� and which opposed the El Tornillito hydroelectric dam.

And no region of Honduras has suffered more than the flood-prone valley surrounding San Pedro Sula, the country’s second-largest city and industrial center, where the storms caused the Chamelecón and ����ú�� rivers to breach their banks, sending surges crashing into densely populated working-class neighborhoods.

“There are 13 communities along the tributaries of the Ulua River that are still mostly isolated and where many still are on the roofs of their homes waiting for a rescue,” said Ismael Moreno, a Jesuit priest and director of the non-profit media outlet Radio Progreso.