A powerful film about how the murder of famed activist Berta Caceres has unleashed a wave of activism across Honduras”
From The March on behalf of Berta Cáceres Outside the UN 2016:
Politics of Death: ‘Am I next?’ Honduras land activists
“Honduras is the deadliest place on earth for environmental activism, according to a January report by UK-based watchdog Global Witness, with about 120 activists killed since 2010 but most crimes going unpunished.
The dangers involved hit the spotlight when renowned environmentalist Berta Caceres – a prize-winning grassroots campaigner – was gunned down in her home in March last year….
…Caceres led a decades-long campaign against the construction of the $50 million Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam that threatened to uproot hundreds of Lenca people and destroy livelihoods.
Both the government and Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), the private company building the Agua Zarca dam, have denied any involvement in Caceres’ murder.
International backers of the dam – the FMO, the Dutch development bank, and a Finnish state investment fund, Finnfund – suspended $20 million in funding following Caceres’ murder.”
…According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)… there are nearly 840 mining projects, most for gold, in the pipeline or under consideration, covering a third of Honduran territory.
From the Guardian: Leaked court documents raise concerns that the murder of the Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres was an extrajudicial killing planned by military intelligence specialists linked to the country’s US–trained special forces, a Guardian investigation can reveal.