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Dr. Luther Castillo

Indigenous physician from the Atlantic Coast of Honduras. He founded the first hospital and health center in that region, the Garifuna Rural Hospital, after studying at the Latin American Medical School in Havana, Cuba. He is also secretary of communications for the National Resistance Front Against the Coup in Honduras. Shortly before the coup, he had been named director of International Cooperation in the Honduran Foreign Ministry.

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