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Bernardo Ermitaño López Reyes
HRD, Member
Consejo de Pueblos Mayas – CPO
Bernardo Ermitaño López Reyes is a leader of civil society in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, and a member of the Council of Mayan Peoples (Consejo de Pueblos Mayas – CPO). He has acted as a facilitator and mediator of dialogue between the government institutions and community groups in Barillas and northern Huehuetenango, where large-scale, government supported development projects are widely opposed by local populations, including indigenous communities, amid reports of violations of human and environmental rights in the process of the projects' development.