Berta Cáceres, Honduran environment and human rights activist, murdered

Barely a week after Berta Cáceres was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project, the Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner has been founded murdered inside her home.

The award-winning founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (COPINH) was shot dead by two gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza at around 1am Thursday. The killers, who escaped without being identified, also wounded her brother.

Police told local media the killings occurred during an attempted robbery, but the family said they had no doubt it was an assassination prompted by Cáceres’s high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners.

Last year, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, the Agua Zarca cascade of four giant dams in the Gualcarque river basin.

“We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no other spare or replacement planet. We have only this one, and we have to take action,” she said in 2015.

Read more in The Guardian.

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Tasha con arco y flecha en el Lago Moreno, Bariloche. Al pie de los Andes, Bariloche es una ciudad conocida como la meca de actividades outdoor y montañismo en la región. / Tasha with bow and arrow at Lago Moreno, Bariloche. Located at the Andean foothills, Bariloche is a city known as the mecca of outdoor activities and mountain sport of the region. Ph: @mariamagdarre #everydaylatinamerica #everydayeverywhere #bariloche #argentina #lagomoreno #andes #archery #outdoors #outdoorlife http://ift.tt/1PjXhg5

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Coti (4) y Facu (7) toman tereré después de jugar en los trenes viejos y abandonados en Areguá. Tereré es la bebida nacional del país, hecho de yerba maté, se toma con agua fría y a veces con yuyos variados. Es parte del cotidiano y de la identidad de la gente paraguaya. / Coti (4) and Facu (7) drink tereré after playing in the old abandoned trains in Areguá, a city near the capital, Asunción. Tereré is Paraguay’s national drink, made of yerba maté, you drink it with cold water and sometimes different yuyos (medicinal plants). It’s largely a part of the quotidian life and identity of the Paraguayan people. Photo: @mariamagdarre #everydayparaguay #everydaylatinamerica #everydayeverywhere #aregua #paraguay #terere #pohañane #yerbamate #childhood #growingup #play #outside http://ift.tt/1Ipsfl8

Naturaleza retomando una casona abandonada en el centro histórico de Asunción. El centro de la capital del país tiene su mística propia, a las orillas del Río Paraguay, es un lugar que guarda muchas historias y rincones para descubrir, como cualquier otra metrópolis latinoamericana. El centro Asunceno está lleno de edificios históricos abandonados, en estado de deterioro, que muchas veces terminan derrumbados. Por el otro lado, Asunción está pasando también por un momento de revitalizar el mismo centro histórico a través de diferentes iniciativas y actividades culturales, gastronómicas, musicales y artísticas, para dar nueva vida a los lindos espacios y a las calles de esta zona. / Nature taking overan abandoned mansion in the historic downtown of Asuncion. Downtown has its own mysticism, located on the Paraguay River, it’s a place that keeps many stories and hidden corners to discover, much like any other Latin American metropolis. Downtown Asuncion is filled with buildings similar to this one, in a state of abandonment and deterioration. The city is also going through a sort of modern renaissance though too, bringing life back to the abandoned city center and its streets through various cultural, gastronomic, musical and artistic initiatives and activities. Photo: @mariamagdarre #everydaylatinamerica #everydayparaguay #everydayeverywhere #asuncion #retonarelcentro #naturetakesover #asuncentro #architecture #urban #renaissance http://ift.tt/1U0epa3

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As a journalism student, Adriana Zehbrauskas (@adrianazehbrauskas) found that pictures, not words, were the most compelling way for her to tell stories. “Photography is my way of saying, ‘Look here, this is happening. Don’t turn around, don’t go away,’” she says. From her current base in Mexico she strives to give a voice to individuals who otherwise might not be heard. Her winning project focuses on a group of missing students from a rural teachers college in the Mexican state of Guerrero — 43 men who disappeared almost a year ago.

Many of the families are “still in the dark, fighting on their own, striving to get by among the grief and looking for answers to what happened to their sons, fathers, brothers and husbands.” Yet, even when documenting human suffering, Adriana wants people to feel hopeful and to realize they are not alone. “We are all connected and we are all entitled to dignity and beauty,” she says.

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