State-assigned bodyguards stand guard as Thelma Peña and her daughter Julia, family of slain environmentalist Juan López, leave their house in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Dalila Santiago, the leader of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of the Common and Public Goods (CMDBCP) and a close friend of slain environmentalist Juan López, sheds tears during an interview in Tocoa, Honduras, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Horses graze on a soccer field in the Lempira settlement, situated next to Los Pinares iron oxide mining project, in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A poster of slain environmentalist Juan Lopez hangs on a wall at the San Isidro Labrador church during a Mass in Tocoa, Honduras, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
State-assigned bodyguards stand guard over Julia Lopez Peña, center, the daughter of the slain environmentalist Juan López, during her ninth birthday party in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A bullet hole perforates the wall of a church, where environmentalist Juan López was killed, in the Fabio Ochoa neighborhood of Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Storm clouds loom over the San Isidro Labrador church in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Residents board a vehicle after attending a burial service at a cemetery in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A portrait of slain environmentalist Juan López sits on a table as his daughter Julia Lopez Peña poses for a photo with relatives, at her ninth birthday party, at the family home in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
The Guapinol River flows alongside Los Pinares iron oxide mining project in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Thelma Peña inspects the area where her husband Juan López, an environmentalist, was killed by a masked gunman at a church in the Fabio Ochoa neighborhood of Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A poster of slain environmentalist Juan López hangs in his home as a state-assigned bodyguard watches over the López family, in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
State-assigned bodyguards escort Thelma Peña and her daughter Julia, family members of slain environmentalist Juan López, out of their house in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Dalila Santiago, an environmental leader, puts yucca plants on the tomb of slain friend and environmentalist Juan López at a cemetery in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Julia Lopez Peña, the daughter of slain environmentalist Juan López, poses for a photo with her state-assigned bodyguards at her ninth birthday party, in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A youth rinses off his shoe in the Lempira settlement, situated next to Los Pinares iron oxide mining project, in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A banner of environmental leader Berta Cáceres, who was killed in 2016, hangs at the main entrance of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of the Common and Public Goods (CMDBCP) offices in Tocoa, Honduras, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Residents walk through a street in the Lempira settlement, situated next to Los Pinares iron oxide mining project in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
The Guapinol River flows through Carlos Escaleras National Park in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Dalila Santiago, an environmental leader, cleans the tomb of slain friend Juan López at a cemetery in Tocoa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A state-assigned bodyguard for the family of slain environmentalist Juan López stands watch outside their home in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)