lenca in a sentence

1. Lempira was a leader of the Lencas, an indigenous tribe in Honduras.

2. They pursued the Lenca leaders further up into the mountains of Intibucá.

3. For ten years the Lencas prevented the Spanish from building a permanent settlement.

4. We reaffirm our struggle in defense of the natural common resources and the Lenca people.

5. “Her assassination is an effort to end the struggle of the Lenca people against all forms of exploitation and theft.

6. The Spanish faced much resistance from the Pipil and were not able to reach eastern El Salvador, the area of the Lencas.

7. Her murder is an attempt to put an end to the struggle of the Lenca people against all forms of exploitation and expulsion.

8. Continuing our cultural journey, we found the Lenca Route, a walk through some of the most beautiful colonial cities in Honduras.

9. Berta received constant death threats for her work in defense of the Lenca people, including in the days leading up to her murder.

10. Lempira fought in command of thousands of Lenca forces for six more years in El Salvador and Honduras until he was killed in battle.

11. Today, COPINH groups 200 Lenca communities, native people who are organizing the resistance in defense of their ancestral territories.

12. 1) We stand in solidarity with Berta’s family, with the Lenca people and members of COPINH and all social organisations in Honduras who are in mourning today.

13. Gómez, a member of the Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz (MILPAH), managed to escape from his aggressors, one of whom was sentenced to eight months in jail.

14. The cooperative Aprolma (Asociacion de Productoras Libres de Marcala) was founded in 2013 and currently has 69 exclusively female members, mainly indigenous Lencas.

15. In pre-Columbian times, the country was also inhabited by various other indigenous peoples, including the Lenca, a Chilanga Lencan-speaking group who settled in the eastern highlands.

16. Several people were seriously injured during the eviction, among them also Victor Vesques, leader of the Indigenous Council of the Simpinula and member of the Lenca Independent Peace Movement.

17. This purchase is particularly important as it contains several springs which supply fresh water to various Lencas indigenous communities located within the buffer zone of the reserve and at the Sensenti Valley.”