TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran authorities arrested an executive with a dam development company Friday in the 2016 killing of indigenous and environmental activist Berta Caceres, calling him an intellectual author of a crime that sparked an international outcry. It was the ninth arrest in the killing of Caceres, a Goldman Environmental Prize winner who was shot to death two years ago after attackers barged into her home in La Esperanza. “There is no doubt that he was one of the material authors of Berta’s death,” said her ex-husband, Salvador Zuniga. She said she was promoting a parliamentary initiative to cancel the construction of the Agua Zarca dam. Caceres and her organization known as Copinh opposed DESA’s Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, which is on her Lenca indigenous people’s lands.

Source: Washington Post March 03, 2018 00:31 UTC