Assassination Attempts Made On Environmentalists In Honduras

Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and people belonging to the Garifuna people protested to demand justice over the March 2016 murder of Honduran indigenous leader
Tear gas flies as protesters clash with riot police guarding the attorney general's office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Oct. 20, 2016. Members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and people belonging to the Garifuna people protested to demand justice over the March 2016 murder of Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Caceres and to halt construction of the Agua Zarca dam, which would displace many of the indigenous Lenca people. Fernando Antonio / Associated Press
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and people belonging to the Garifuna people protested to demand justice over the March 2016 murder of Honduran indigenous leader
Tear gas flies as protesters clash with riot police guarding the attorney general's office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Oct. 20, 2016. Members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and people belonging to the Garifuna people protested to demand justice over the March 2016 murder of Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Caceres and to halt construction of the Agua Zarca dam, which would displace many of the indigenous Lenca people. Fernando Antonio / Associated Press

Assassination Attempts Made On Environmentalists In Honduras

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A 2015 report by Global Witness declared Honduras as the world’s most dangerous country for environmental activists.

Berta Cáceres, a Honduran indigenous environmental activist and a leader for the group Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations or COPINH, was murdered in March. Last June, we spoke to one of her successors, Tomas Gómez Membreño. Recently, an attempt was made on his life and some of his colleagues. 

We get an update from Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, a community organizer and member of the Chicago-based human rights group La Voz de Los de Abajo. Ginsberg-Jaeckle worked with Cáceres for nearly two decades.