“The people who killed our husbands were illegal loggers, Brazilians, who operate in that region, who we’ve denounced multiple times, but the government does nothing to stop the situation that’s going on there.”
On Saturday, thousands gathered in Honduras to mourn indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was gunned down in her home last Thursday. A 2015 report from Global Witness says 116 environmentalists were killed in 2014 — more than two a week — and three-quarters of the deaths occurred in Central and South America. In 2014, Democracy Now! attended the U.N. Climate Summit in Peru and spoke with the widows of murdered Peruvian indigenous rainforest defenders.
