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Five years have passed since social leader and environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, reports People's Dispatch.
Five years have passed since social leader and environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, reports People's Dispatch.
5 Years Since her Assassination, Movements Across Globe Demand Justice for Berta Cáceres This post is also available in: German Berta Cáceres, indigenous peoples' rights activist, receives the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015. - Still from the video tribute for the posthumous Champions of Earth 2017 award, by UN Environment. (Image by CC BY 3.0 / UN Environment - ONU Brasil -) Berta’s organization, COPINH, has called for a series of global actions to intensify the struggle demanding justice in her c...
HeadlineDec 29, 2020 In news from Honduras, the Indigenous environmental activist Félix Vásquez was assassinated Saturday by armed, masked men in front of his family. Vásquez was a member of the Indigenous Lenca community and was planning to run for Congress in 2021. His killing comes four-and-a-half years after the assassination of Berta Cáceres, who was also a Lenca leader. Topics:
Masked men armed with guns and machetes have killed a Honduran environmentalist activist in front of his family, police said on Monday, the latest in a string of such attacks in the Central American country. Felix Vasquez, a defender of environmental and human rights, died on Saturday night after the attack in the village El Ocotal, in central Honduras. A law enforcement spokesman told the news agency Reuters the killing was under investigation. “Police authorities immediately decided to initiate a corresponding investigation … we hope to have an answer soon,” police official Kevin Hern...