A life of resistance and repression
In 2015, Honduran activist Berta Cáceres won the Goldman Prize, the highest international honour that can be bestowed to an environmental defender. When a researcher from the prize committee came to visit her in Tegucigalpa, she asked him what would happen if she died before she received the prize money, a question no recipient had ever asked before.
Her fears were not unfounded. Cáceres was murdered on 2 March 2016, shot dead in her bungalow in La Esperanza, in the west of the Central American country.
Cáceres was the charismatic leader of COPINH, an indigenous organization that brought together the Lenca people in Honduras to defend the Gualcarque River against an internationally-funded hydroelectric dam project, Agua Zarca.
