{"id":386961,"date":"2018-11-29T00:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-there-be-justice-as-berta-caceres-murder-trial-nears-end\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:25:06","slug":"will-there-be-justice-as-berta-caceres-murder-trial-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-there-be-justice-as-berta-caceres-murder-trial-nears-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Will There Be Justice as Berta C\u00e1ceres Murder Trial Nears End?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight men are on trial in Honduras for the murder of environmentalist Berta C\u00e1ceres, who was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza in 2016. A verdict is expected this week. The assassination of C\u00e1ceres came a year after she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting indigenous communities and her campaign against a massive hydroelectric dam project. We speak with Dana Frank, professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her new book is titled, The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>As you talk about the resistance, I wanted to ask about Berta C\u00e1ceres. Eight men on trial right now accused of murdering the great environmentalist. She was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza in 2016. A verdict is expected any moment. Her assassination came a year after she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting indigenous communities and her campaign against a massive hydroelectric dam project. This is Berta C\u00e1ceres speaking in 2015.<\/p>\n

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BERTA<\/span> <\/span>C\u00c1CERES:<\/strong> <\/span>[translated] In our world views, we are beings who come from the earth, from the water and from corn. The Lenca people, ancestral guardians of the rivers, in turn protected by the spirits of young girls who teach us that giving our lives in various ways for the protection of the rivers is giving our lives for the well-being of humanity and of this planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>That was Berta C\u00e1ceres receiving the Goldman Prize in San Francisco. She would go home and she would be killed. Dana Frank, talk about the trial, who\u2019s involved, who is on trial and who isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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DANA<\/span> <\/span>FRANK<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>Well, there are eight men on trial, one of whom was an active duty military officer in charge of military intelligence at the time. Another one was a former military officer. They do seem to have been the material authors of the crime itself. But it\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eight men are on trial in Honduras for the murder of environmentalist Berta C\u00e1ceres, who was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza in 2016. A verdict is expected this week. The assassination of C\u00e1ceres came a year after she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting indigenous communities and her campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}