10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?
3/3/202659 min
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the hired hit that took Berta Cáceres’s life and robbed both the Honduran and global environmental movements of a uniquely effective leader. Cáceres was targeted by a dam company, with an assist from the police, military, government officials and international banks because of her effective organizing on behalf of her people, the Lenca. Nina Lakhani literally wrote the book on Cáceres’s killing, and in this episode she walks us through what happened then, what’s happening now, the role the U.S. played in all of it, and what...
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[upbeat music] Pushkin. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome back to Drilled. I'm Amy Westervelt. We have a new season coming up for you in April, and in the meantime, we'll be bringing you a few bonus episodes. Today, I'm joined by our new senior global climate justice reporter, Nina Lakhani, who has special insight into the story of Berta Cáceres. This week marks the 10-year anniversary of Berta's assassination. She was an indigenous leader in Honduras, and it's been proven that the dam company building the dam she was protesting orchestrated a hit on her with the help of various hitmen, government officials, police, et cetera. It was a horrific ordeal for Berta's family, for the whole movement in Honduras, and it also raised the profile of just how dangerous it was to be an environmental activist in Honduras. Unfortunately, in those 10 years since her death, it has not gotten any better, and Nina did a deep dive on what's been going on in those 10 years, what it looks like now, and what the lasting impact of Berta's work