Berta Cáceres
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras [COPINH] – Rio Blanco, Honduras
Berta Caceras (1971-2016) was an Indigenous woman from the Lenca community in Rio Blanco, Honduras, and a Goldman prize recipient in 2015. She died defending her community from the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque river by DESA, one of the world’s largest dam builders.
Her case is unique because it marks one of the first instances where the authorities have actually charged and convicted the men responsible for her death. But, the intellectual authors of her murder have yet to be charged or arrested. Her family and friends continue to seek justice.
“We resist as Indigenous peoples, as communities, regardless of the borders that have been drawn between us”
In the time since Cáceres’ assassination, COPINH continues to lead the fight to transform Honduras through its fight for political, economic, environmental, human, and indigenous rights, despite threats to her family and the killing of Nelson Garcia, another COPINH leader.
“We fight and we defined our own forms of struggle, made legal by ourselves.“
Video 1) Documentary (Spanish with CC)
Video 2) Interview (Spanish with CC)
