Within hours of the assassination of Juan López in Tocoa, Honduras, in September 2024, the Jesuit priest who heads the town's San Isidro Labrador parish declared that the town's then-mayor, Adán Fúnez, was responsible for the murder of the Catholic lay leader and environmental activist. More than a year later, on May 12, Honduran police finally arrested Fúnez and two others, charging them with being the "intellectual authors" of the killing, according to the Associated Press.