It was a tragedy waiting to happen. And it has sent shockwaves across Honduras and the world. On March 3rd, the courageous, celebrated, beloved Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home in Honduras. Berta, winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, had warned that she and her family were receiving death threats as she campaigned against the construction of a hydroelectric dam project called Agua Zarca, and the damaging impact it would have on the territory of the Lenca Indigenous people. Berta's murder has drawn international attention to the grave risk faced by human rights defenders in Honduras. Equally disturbing is the catalogue of failures by investigators in Honduras, raising serious questions about their interest in finding the killers.
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