So sorry to impinge on the celebratory mood. So glad the U.S. has made Honduras safe for capitalism. This is Daily Kos so we mustn’t discuss causation in a way that mentions TWCBN.
Fellow Honduran activist Nelson García murdered days after Berta Cáceres
The murder of another member of Berta Cáceres’ activist organisation Copinh comes amid growing fears for the safety of her colleagues and family members
Clearly if the price of progress is murder, well this is just indigenous people without proper ownership papers.
Another indigenous activist has been murdered in Honduras amid an escalating wave of repression against the relatives and colleagues of renowned campaigner Berta Cáceres, who was murdered less than two weeks ago.
Nelson García, 38, an active member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (Copinh) was killed on Tuesday after a violent eviction carried out by Honduran security forces in a nearby Lenca indigenous community.
More good news for environmentalists likely to follow next week, and the week after that, but who ever said building dams is easy work.
An urgent request made on 5 March by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights for safety measures to protect Copinh members, Soto and Cáceres’ family has so far been ignored by the Honduran government. Copinh and Caceres’ daughter Bertha have called for an independent investigation into the activist’s death.
Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders with 101 murdered between 2010 and 2014, according to the NGO Global Witness.