Andalusia Knoll writes that Honduran authorities have arrested four suspects for the March 2 murder environmental activist Berta Cáceres:
Two months of international outrage and significant pressure later and the authorities have announced the arrest of four suspects — two of whom are employed by the company building the massive dam she had dedicated her life to fighting, and three of whom are former soldiers.
"These arrests show us that the assassination of our compañera was coordinated by the government," said José Gaspar Sánchez, spokesman for the same activist group known as the COPINH, to which Caceres also belonged. "Neither COPINH nor Berta's daughters were notified about these arrests which is very concerning for us."
Cáceres was the best known member of the COPINH, which stands for the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, and won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 mainly in the name of their struggle against the Agua Zarca Dam.
This dam is part of a larger hydroelectric project on the River Gualcarque in a largely indigenous area in Western Honduras. The river is the main water source for these communities who believe that the project directly threatens their livelihood. [...]
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