Drilled 10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?
Mar 3, 2026
Nina Lakhani, investigative journalist and author of Who Killed Berta Cáceres, explains the killing of Berta Cáceres and the tangled web of companies, military and banks connected to it. She traces U.S. links, legal failures, recent attacks on environmental leaders, and how Honduran movements keep resisting despite violent repression.
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Berta's Cross‑Movement Organizing Power
- Berta combined grassroots organizing with international advocacy to threaten elites across spaces.
- Nina describes Berta connecting campesinos, students, feminists and policymakers while organizing civil disobedience and speaking in Congress and to the Pope.
Berta's Last Years On The Run
- Nina met Berta in 2013 when Berta warned elections would be neither free nor safe and that a hit list circulated with social leaders' names.
- Berta was living clandestinely, sleeping in different places, banned from visiting her sacred river due to militarization.
How The Dam Project Became A Criminal Enterprise
- The dam company operated within an organized criminal enterprise including executives, hired hitmen, military-trained intermediaries, and complicit state actors.
- Two international banks funded the project and two‑thirds of funds were diverted to surveillance, informants, and the murder.
