Bartolo Fuentes is a Honduran journalist, politician and activist. He is one of the leaders of the thousands of Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan migrants who formed caravans to travel overland to seek
asylum
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in the United States in 2018. He is the editor of ''Vida Laboral'' magazine and a Honduras Labor website. He is the host of the radio show "Without Borders".
Career
His activism began as a student leader. He edits ''Vida Laboral'' magazine and the Honduras Labor website, which focuses on labor and human rights.
Fuentes sought refuge in Mexico in the 1980s after receiving threats after protesting against the Nicaraguan
Contras
The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 fol ...
. He began organizing migrants in 1999. Beginning in 2013, he served as a deputy in the
National Congress of Honduras
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Organization
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, for Libertad y Refundación (LIBRE, or
Liberty and Refoundation
Liberty and Refoundation ( es, Libertad y Refundación, Libre; ''libre'' is the Spanish word for "free") is a left-wing political party in Honduras. Libre was founded in 2011 by the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a leftist coalition o ...
).
Fuentes helped organize a migrant caravan in April 2018. On October 16, as a later caravan entered Guatemala, Fuentes was arrested and returned to Honduras. Fearing persecution by the government, he took refuge in El Salvador.
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Honduran political people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)