Slain Activist Berta Cáceres’ Daughter: US Military Aid Has Fueled Repression & Violence in Honduras --- DN!

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Slain Activist Berta Cáceres’ Daughter: US Military Aid Has Fueled Repression & Violence in Honduras

  

 

Another indigenous environmentalist has been murdered in Honduras, less
than two weeks after the assassination of renowned activist Berta
Cáceres. Nelson García was shot to death Tuesday after returning home
from helping indigenous people who had been displaced in a mass eviction
by Honduran security forces. García was a member of COPINH,
the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras,
co-founded by Berta Cáceres, who won the prestigious Goldman
Environmental Prize last year for her decade-long fight against the Agua
Zarca Dam, a project planned along a river sacred to the indigenous
Lenca people. She was shot to death at her home on March 3. On Thursday,
thousands converged in Tegucigalpa for the start of a mobilization to
demand justice for Berta Cáceres and an end to what they say is a
culture of repression and impunity linked to the Honduran government’s
support for corporate interests. At the same time, hundreds of people,
most of them women, gathered outside the Honduran Mission to the United
Nations chanting "Berta no se murió; se multiplicó – Berta didn’t die;
she multiplied." We speak with Cáceres’s daughter, Bertha Zúniga
Cáceres, and with Lilian Esperanza López Benítez, the financial
coordinator of COPINH.