Ex-Honduran Soldier Linked to Berta Caceres Murder Arrested
Source: Telesur
Ex-Honduran Soldier Linked to Berta Caceres Murder Arrested
Environmental and Indigenous rights leader Berta Caceres, who was shot dead last year in her home in Honduras, is pictured in a handout from the Goldman Environmental Prize, an award she won in 2015.
Environmental and Indigenous rights leader Berta Caceres, who was shot dead last year in her home in Honduras, is pictured in a handout from the Goldman Environmental Prize, an award she won in 2015. | Photo:
Published 13 January 2017
A former Honduran soldier allegedly involved in last year's assassination of renowned Honduran Indigenous and environmental activist Berta Caceres has been arrested in Mexico, local press reported on Friday.
La Prensa Honduras says the man, identified as Henry Javier Hernandez Rodriguez, was arrested at a barbershop in the northern Mexican city of Reynosa. Mexican authorities have not yet confirmed the report.
Caceres gained prominence for leading the indigenous Lenca people in a struggle against the Agua Zarca Dam, a controversial development project in the community of Rio Blanco that was put in motion without consent from local communities. Caceres suffered dozens of death threats and was reportedly on the top of a U.S.-backed military hit list leading up to her assassination.
So far, eight people have been arrested for Caceres's murder, who was shot dead in the early hours of March 3, 2016, at her home in the town of La Esperanza. On the day of her murder, Caceres hosted Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro as a guest in her home, the only witness to the assassination who survived by playing dead after being shot. Castro and Caceres’s family claim that the Honduran company Desarrollos Energeticos SA, better known as DESA, and the Honduran government hired contract killers to murder activists like her.
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