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Berta Caceres
Artist
MB Dallocchio
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Mixed Media - Mixed Media
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Berta Cáceres, (Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores), Honduran activist (born March 4, 1973), La Esperanza, Honduras—died March 3, 2016, La Esperanza), cofounded (1993) the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and devoted 10 years to a campaign to stop the construction of the Agua Zarca Dam on the Gualcarque River in the Rio Blanco area of Honduras, work for which she was awarded a 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize. Cáceres, a member of the indigenous Lenca people, was the daughter of a midwife and social activist. She helped establish COPINH to help Lenca communities resist illegal logging and other such threats to homes and societies. In 2006 people of the Rio Blanco area asked COPINH for help, as dam construction had begun without the legally required notice on a river that was economically and spiritually important for the populace around it. Cáceres responded by filing complaints with government authorities and with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and by appealing to businesses that were funding the dam to withdraw support. Those efforts proved unsuccessful, however, and in 2013 Cáceres organized a human blockade of the road to access the construction site. The blockade stayed in place for more than a year, and protests continued to take place thereafter. Criminal charges were filed against Cáceres, and she and other activists were routinely threatened with kidnap and murder. After one protest leader was killed in 2013, Sinohydro, the Chinese partner of the Honduran company building the Agua Zarca Dam, withdrew from the project, and the International Finance Corporation later withdrew its support. Cáceres was murdered in her home.
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