Asís Castellanos and Adrienne Pine Berta Cáceres, photo provided by Silvio Carrillo and used with permission of COPINH. Much of what has been written about Lenca/Honduran activist Berta Cáceres has focused on her identifications as an Indigenous woman and as an environmentalist. While neither is false, those two facts alone paint an anemic picture of…
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For Berta Cáceres, “Any Injustice Was Her Battle”
Hilary Goodfriend The March 2, 2016 assassination of venerated Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres sent shockwaves around the world. In her new book from Verso, Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, journalist Nina Lakhani describes the fraught process that led, two years later, to the…
The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Imposition of the “Consultation” Law Developed by UNDP
On March 3rd, it will be four years since Berta Cáceres was murdered. An indigenous leader who constantly fought for the defence of indigenous peoples’ territories and the implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consultation as a mechanism for the recognition and respect of indigenous peoples’ rights. Everything indicates that the bloody murder was a…
COPINH Communiqué on the Reading of the Sentence in the Case of Berta Cáceres
After the reading of the sentence of the first trial against the perpetrators of the murder of our colleague Berta Cáceres, the daughters and son of Berta Cáceres, together with COPINH, make the following known: 1. Impunity does not end with the sentencing of the perpetrators. There is sufficient evidence to prosecute and punish members…
Update on the Case of Berta Cáceres
The Berta Cáceres case is a call for justice for indigenous peoples, and for Honduran women who fight. It is the resignification of the life, thought and action of the compañera in terms of its dimension for the historical struggle of the Honduran people. It represents the intentionality of many organizations, communities and people around…
Death of Key Witness in Berta Cáceres Case Points to a Plot to Erase Evidence
Peoples Dispatch The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reported that on July 5 that Olvin Gustavo García Mejía was found dead in the San Bartolo community, in the north region of the Intibucá department. García Mejía was an unofficial employee of the Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA) company and allegedly carried…
The Assassination of Berta Cáceres, a State Crime
Last March 2 marked the third anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, executed by soldiers and employees of the company (DESA), owned by the Atala-Faraj clan, without any intellectual author having been convicted to date. The investigation into Berta’s murder was, from the beginning, hindered and distorted by the security forces and justice officials,…
The Radical Legacy of Berta Cáceres
Zoe PC Berta Caceres 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 struggle to halt construction on the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric project, that poses grave threats to local environment, river and indigenous Lenca people…
Honduras: From the Assassination of Berta Cáceres to the Imprisonment of Water Defenders in Guapinol
The defense of Mother Earth in Honduras has been a cause of repression and criminalization to the point that 120 defenders were assassinated between 2010 and 2016, by security forces and death squads in the service of the political business elite, which have controlled the country in recent decades. Since the coup d’état (2009) Honduras…
Family of Berta Cáceres Condemn Court Decision that Denies Justice
Statement by Berta’s Family, COPINH, Gustavo Castro and the legal teams regarding the conviction of Sergio Rodríguez, Mariano Díaz, Douglas Bustillo, Elvin Heriberto Rápalo, Edilson Duarte, Oscar Haroldo Torres and Emerson Duarte The verdict that was just released DOES NOT satisfy our demands for justice as victims in the assassination of Berta Cáceres and the…
Berta Cáceres Post-mortem Lynching and the Absence of a Rule of Law in Honduras
OFRANEH Translation by Internationalist 360° The post-mortem lynching that the Amasterdam & Partners Law Firm, hired by the DESA company, are carrying out to further undermine the trial related to the murder of Berta Cáceres, demonstrates the lack of ethics on the part of businessmen and politicians associated with the current regime in Honduras. Berta…
Berta Cáceres Case: COPINH Denounces Government Obstruction in the Path to Justice
After a month of delays in the evidentiary hearings, the court denied the majority of the evidence presented by attorneys representing Cáceres’ family and COPINH Zoe PC Tuesday, September 4, marked the conclusion of the evidentiary hearing of the first judicial process that will try eight people accused of perpetrating the assassination of Berta Cáceres….
