71-year-old farmer who disappeared near San Pablo, Toledo was found hacked to death

Published by BBNTEAM at June 16, 2025

Posted: Monday, June 16, 2025. 11:56 pm CST.

By Aaron Humes: Four days after he told a friend that he was headed to work on his farm, the decomposing body of 71-year-old Roberto Vasquez Dominguez was found near a banana farm on Friday afternoon.

Investigators are trying to piece together what happened in those missing days. ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer explained what is known so far: “On Friday June 13, 2025 at approximately 4:15 p.m., police officers attached to the Bella Vista Police substation in southern Belize visited a banana farm on San Pablo Road, where the unresponsive body of Roberto Vasquez Dominguez, a seventy-one-year-old Honduran farmer, was found. The body, which was already in a state of decomposition, exhibited injuries consistent with chop wounds and gunshot wounds. As a consequence of the ongoing investigation, police have learned that Dominguez was last seen alive on Monday, June 9, where it is alleged that he indicated to an individual that he was going to do some work on his farm. The investigation into this matter continues.”

So far police have not identified any suspects and there has been no report to them of whether Dominguez was in trouble with anyone.

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