The Assassination of Berta Cáceres

Berta Caceres at the banks of the Gualcarque River in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras where she, COPINH (the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) and the people of Rio Blanco have maintained a two year struggle to halt construction on the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric project, that poses grave threats to local environment, river and indigenous Lenca people from the region.

Berta Caceres at the banks of the Gualcarque River in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras where she, COPINH (the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) and the people of Rio Blanco have maintained a two year struggle to halt construction on the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric project, that poses grave threats to local environment, river and indigenous Lenca people from the region.

March 8, 2016 – Segment 1

We discuss the murder of Berta Cáceres, Honduras’ most internationally recognized environmental activist, last week in her home. With: Beverly Bell, Coordinator of the economic and social justice collaborative Other Worlds, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and close friend of Berta Cáceres for 17 years.