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Assignment: Honduras: After Berta

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Honduras: After Berta…

16/06/2016 GMT

Honduras: After Berta

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How the murder of environmentalist, Berta Caceres, is emblematic of divisions in Honduras

How the murder of environmentalist, Berta Caceres, is emblematic of profound divisions in Honduras.

In March the award-winning Honduran environmentalist, Berta Caceres, was gunned down at home. Of indigenous Lenca origin, for years she was a prominent critic of the government, and campaigned against the Agua Zarca hydro-electric project in the western highlands. Honduras is the most unequal nation in the Americas, but it is rich in minerals with an enormous capacity for the development of hydro-electric power. Since a coup in 2009 removed the left-leaning president, a business-driven government has granted dozens of concessions for the exploitation of precious national resources. But the race for development is creating bitter – and murderous – disharmony. Honduras has become the most deadly nation on earth to be a land or environmental activist. Linda Pressly, explores how the murder of Berta Caceres is emblematic of profound divisions in Honduras.

(Photo: A graffiti image of Berta Caceres on a wall in Honduras)

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