Honduran activist Berta Caceres murdered. . .

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The Honduran indigenous activist has been killed today.
Her fight against the building of a hydro electric dam displacing thousands of locals.
She had informed police about receiving death threats.
To little avail it seems..

Honduras indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres killed - BBC News

 

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Thanks Hillary

 

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How Many More? | Global Witness

This a tragic global phenomenon but with a real concentration in Latin America.

 

[DotCommunist]

Thanks Hillary

The Clinton-Backed Honduran Regime Is Picking Off Indigenous Leaders

Hillary Clinton will be good for women. Ask Berta Cáceres. But you can’t. She’s dead. Gunned down yesterday, March 2, at midnight, in her hometown of La Esperanza, Intibuca, in Honduras.


Cáceres was a vocal and brave indigenous leader, an opponent of the 2009 Honduran coup that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, made possible. In The Nation, Dana Frank and I covered that coup as it unfolded. Later, as Clinton’s emails were released, others, such as Robert Naiman, Mark Weisbrot, and Alex Main, revealed the central role she played in undercutting Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president, and undercutting the opposition movement demanding his restoration. In so doing, Clinton allied with the worst sectors of Honduran society.

 

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“We are being targeted for contract killing ordered by the judiciary and the armed forces. Our lives are hanging by a thread.”

These dramatic premonitory words were part of the last interview Berta Cáceres granted by to il manifesto. Cáceres, the feminist and coordinator of the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH), which she helped create in 1993, was killed around 1 a.m. Thursday by at least two gunmen. In her conversation with us, which has not been published until now, warnings of a state murder were already there.

 

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I thought that this from 2009 was interesting

Media Lens - SIDING WITH THE GENERALS - THE INDEPENDENT ON HONDURAS

The British media coverage of Latin America in general is very bad.

 

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Witness to the assassination of Honduran indigenous and environmental activist Berta Cáceres being held in Honduras

 

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Another Environmentalist Was Murdered In Honduras And Activists Are Enraged

 

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Mrs Clinton take a bow.

 

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Mrs Clinton take a bow bullet.

ftfy

 

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ftfy

Sadly it will be the forelock touching sap in front of her that will probably stop one.

 

[J Ed]

How Hillary Clinton Militarized US Policy in Honduras

Good summary here

 

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The US concept of bringing their version of democracy to a region is a dangerous and violent beast.

 

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An Interview With Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Assassination of Berta Cáceres

 

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Not that many people here are under any illusions regarding Hillary - in fact it was largely thanks to posters on this site that I became aware of her role in the coup. Anyway all the nasty details and her attempts to rewrite what actually happened are in this article:

Hillary Clinton is lying about the criminal U.S.-backed coup in Honduras. It should be as scandalous as Libya

 

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As we continue to mine the Earth for its resources, global corporate interests are fighting to get to the dwindling supply. And as the stakes rise, so has the death toll of our planet’s defenders.

Last year was the most dangerous year yet for environmental activists, thewatchdog group Global Witness reported on Monday. An average of three environmentalists per week were murdered for resisting resource extraction and pollution by major agribusiness, mining, and logging interests — with 185 activists total murdered around the globe. (The murder rate was 59 percent lower in 2014.)

Of the 185 dead, many were assassinated; others were tortured, or publicly executed.

For environmental activists, 2015 was the deadliest year yet

 

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The American State has a long history of direct and indirect interference in areas that they think that they should control (sphere of influence). Which is most of the rest of the world, tbh. This has even occurred in the UK, although here it has stopped short of generating a military coup - but some other areas haven't been so lucky.

 

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The American State has a long history of direct and indirect interference in areas that they think that they should control (sphere of influence). Which is most of the rest of the world, tbh. This has even occurred in the UK, although here it has stopped short of generating a military coup - but some other areas haven't been so lucky.

Come on, spill the beans! Are you referimg to Cecil King's plan to get rid of Harold Wilson and have an junta headed by Louie Mountbatten? Or something completely different?

 

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no, I'm mainly talking about interfering within the trade union movement. and, no, I'm not going into more details, some of the unwitting collaborators are still breathing.
There were some higher level things as well, of course.

 

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*bump*

Colour me surprised. the only thing I am a tad surprised about is that they didn't make more effort to conceal their involvement.

Shocking New Investigation Links Berta Cáceres’s Assassination to Executives at Honduran Dam Company | Democracy Now!

 

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A little OT, but I noticed today that Katie Lee died. She was the original big dam project protester. Some people called her "the goddess of Glen Canyon."

“Often called the ‘Grand Dame of Dam Busting,’ she never stopped fighting to drain it and return the natural flow of the Colorado River,” Rapaport said. “She left a torch that won't be extinguished. She knew how to scorch with her words, whether in her books, stories, songs or lectures. I seldom met an audience of hers that didn't shed tears and give her a standing ovation.”


Lee published five books: “Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle - A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story & Verse,” “Glen Canyon Betrayed - A Sensuous Elegy,” which was also called “All My Rovers Are Gone,” “Sandstone Seduction - Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends,” "The Ghosts of Dandy Crossing” and “Ballad Of Gutless Ditch” along with dozens of essays, stories and music published in various periodicals.

Singer, Arizona activist Katie Lee dies at 98

 

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No one should be surprised by this either:

Dutch development bank FMO is at least partly responsible for the death of Honduran activist Berta Caceres in March last year, according to the conclusions of an international team of human rights lawyers in an investigation report published on Tuesday. The Dutch bank helped fund the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Honduras, protests around which ultimately resulted in the activist's murder, the Volkskrant reports.

"FMO's money was used to pay murderers", Miguel Angel Urbina, one of the investigators, said to the Volkskrant. "The bank is at least guilty of gross negligence."

The development bank vehemently denies these accusation. "FMO strongly denies any form of unlawful act in this or any other project", FMO spokesperson Paul Hartogsveld said in an email to the newspaper. "The authors of this report never consulted us, and we are considering steps relating to the allegations."

In 2014 FMO invested 15 million dollars into the hydroelectric power plant in Honduras, constructed by Honduran company DESA. The project was highly controversial - the dam was planned to be built on indigenous territory, and some of the Lenca Indian population opposed the plans, according to the newspaper. Fraud and irregularities were involved in the mandatory public consultation on the project. And the situation escalated into violent clashes between soldiers and activists. In March 2016, the conflict culminated in the murder of Berta Caceres, the coordinator of the Honduran association of native organizations COPINH.

Dutch bank accused of complicity in Honduran activist's murder

 

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Honduran authorities said they have arrested an energy company executive allegedly behind the high-profile 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Caceres.

Police detained electrical engineer Roberto David Castillo Mejia "as the intellectual perpetrator" behind Caceres's murder, the prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday.

Honduras energy executive arrested over murder of Berta Caceres | Buenos Aires Times

 

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Honduras convicts ex-executive in murder of Indigenous environmental activist
July 6, 2021

Roberto David Castillo was found guilty of collaborating in the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres, who won the Goldman Prize for her work against building a dam on Indigenous land.

 

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David Castillo sentenced to 22 years for the murder of Berta Cáceres.

A US-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer who was the president of an internationally financed energy company has been sentenced to 22 years and six months for the assassination of the Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Cáceres, winner of the Goldman prize for environmental defenders, was shot dead by hired hitmen on 2 March 2016, two days before her 45th birthday, after years of threats linked to her opposition of the 22-megawatt Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque River.

On Monday, Roberto David Castillo – the former head of the hydroelectric dam company Desarrollos Energéticos, or Desa – was sentenced for his role in ordering and planning the murder.

The sentence was handed down almost a year after Castillo was found guilty, and falls short of the 25-year maximum – a decision condemned by Cáceres’s supporters outside the high court in Tegucigalpa.

Honduras: man who planned Berta Cáceres’s murder jailed for 22 years