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President Xiomara Castro’s government must do more to protect those fighting for environmental rights, critics say.

The Castro administration says it will support groups such as the Garifuna, but community members are demanding action.

Berta Cáceres’s daughter has alleged that Dutch state-run bank ignored signs of embezzlement, violating laws.

Dutch bank FMO released millions to build the Agua Zarca dam through an offshore account. Records show a recipient listed as one company — and the transfers landing with another.

Prominent environmental and Indigenous activist Berta Caceres was shot dead in her home in 2016.

Rachel Carson and Greta Thunberg are household names, but the list of female environmentalists throughout history is long. Like many fields, the accomplishments of women in environmental work have often been overshadowed by men – particularly in the early years of the environmental movement.

In Central America, Migration Is Not The Crisis Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres. His company was building a dam that threatened the traditional lands and water sources of the Indigenous Lenca people. For years, Cáceres and her organization, the Council of Popular and I...

Honduras/Director of Berta Cáceres’ assassination found guilty By Martha Grevatt posted on July 12, 2021 Roberto David Castillo Mejía, accused by prosecutors of “masterminding” the assassination of beloved Honduran environmentalist and Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, was found guilty of homicide July 5 by a three-judge panel. Feminist Encampment Viva Berta, set up and maintained during the trial of Roberto David Castillo Mejía, who was found guilty of homicide in the assassination ...

Extractive Companies Privatize Repression and Counterinsurgency in the Americas Hundreds of police officers attend an operation in illegal gold mining area of La Pampa, in Madre de Dios, southern Peru, on July 13, 2015. Sebastian Castaneda / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images By As activists increasingly confront extractive industries, militarized repression of those protests has become a growing and lucrative business. This phenomenon is salient across much of the world, including the U.S., where ...

HotSpots H2O: Indigenous Environmental Activist Shot and Killed in Honduras A sign depicts the slain environmental activist Berta Cáceres during a protest on December 4, 2017, in Manhattan. Photo © Joe Catron The environmental activist Carlos Cerros was killed in Honduras, in the town of Nueva Granada, at the end of March, local media reported.  Cerros, a member of the Indigenous Lenca people of Central America, was shot dead on the street in front of his children. The 41-year-old was the pr...