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Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous Leader

Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous Leader

June 10, 2020

“They build dams and kill people.” These words, spoken by a witness when the murderers of environmental defender Berta Cáceres were brought to trial in Honduras, describe Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA), the company whose dam project Berta opposed. DESA was created in May 2009 solely to build the Agua Zarca hydroelectric scheme, using the waters […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, drugs, US intervention, Berta Cáceres, env

The Plunder Continues

The Plunder Continues

December 5, 2018

A fraudulent election one year ago gave Juan Orlando Hernández a second term as president of Honduras. The protests that followed were violently repressed. By the year’s end, 126 demonstrations had been held, leaving 30 people dead, 232 injured and more than 1000 in jail. But on 22 December 2017 the US government congratulated Hernández […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, Berta Cáceres | 1 Response

A protester holds up a picture of Berta Cáceres during a march in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 1, 2017, the first anniversary of her murder. (Reuters / Jorge Cabrera)

New report sheds light on the murder of Berta Cáceres

November 19, 2017

Since the murder of Berta Cáceres in March 2016, several more community activists have been killed in Honduras. And little progress has been made in solving Cáceres’s murder. Eight people have been arrested, but court hearings have been postponed several times because of the prosecutors’ failure to produce evidence, ignoring the judge’s deadlines. Data collected from phones and […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Honduras, Berta Cáceres

Is Nicaragua really the world's ‘most dangerous country’ to be an environmental defender?

Is Nicaragua really the world’s ‘most dangerous country’ to be an environmental defender?

July 16, 2017

Under a picture of the renowned environmentalist Berta Cáceres, murdered in Honduras last year, the Guardian has launched a major and much-needed project looking at worldwide deaths of environmental defenders. It’s doing this in collaboration with Global Witness, which keeps an ongoing register of such assassinations. To do this it needs to make some difficult […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, environment, media, Latin America, Berta Cáceres, Bosawás | 8 Responses

A year after Berta’s murder

A year after Berta’s murder

March 3, 2017

One year ago, Berta Cáceres was asleep in bed in La Esperanza, Honduras, when gunmen burst into the house and shot her. She died in the arms of Gustavo Castro, a Mexican environmental activist who was injured but pretended to be dead until the murderers had gone. Instead of being treated as a victim, Castro […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Berta Cáceres, Honduras, drugs, US intervention, mining

The Murder of Berta Cáceres

The Murder of Berta Cáceres

March 7, 2016

According to the campaign group Global Witness, 116 environmental activists were killed in 2014, a fifth more than the year before. Many of them were leaders of indigenous communities defending their land. The most dangerous place for environmental campaigners is Honduras, where 101 were reported killed between 2010 and 2014. The chief activist of the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, model cities, mining, Berta Cáceres | 3 Responses

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