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On June 20, 2022 a Honduran court finally presented the written verdict in the case against U.S. trained former military intelligence officer Roberto David Castillo for the murder of Berta Cáceres, sentencing him to 22 Read More …
Members of the U.S. Congress – Representatives Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Cori Bush (MO-01), Jesús “Chuy” Garcia (IL-04), and Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) – as well as representation from the office of Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), joined Read More …
When Berta Cáceres was murdered over 5 years ago, the first person who came to the minds of many close to her was David Castillo. Castillo was the CEO of the DESA company, which at Read More …
5 years ago, I froze when I awoke to a message that Berta Cáceres had been murdered. I immediately called her close COPINH colleague, hoping it wouldn’t be true. But it was. Just the evening Read More …
Watch the SOA Watch Webinar with Nina Lakhani, author of ‘Who Killed Berta Cáceres?’ here. Watch the Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT online conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of the recently released book Read More …
The following overview of the legal cases for the murder of Berta Cáceres, a visionary Indigenous and social movement leader in Honduras, is an excerpt from the report ‘Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Read More …
On December 2, 2019, a Honduran court sentenced seven men for the murder of visionary Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres — over a full year after finding them guilty. This includes Douglas Bustillo, an SOA graduate and former Read More …
Report: Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Energy Industry The report Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Energy Industry profiles Roberto David Castillo and related companies. Castillo is a former Honduran military intelligence Read More …
Earlier this month, a Honduran court removed the lawyers representing both the family of Indigenous leader Berta Caceres and the only eyewitness of Berta’s assassination, Gustavo Castro, from the legal case against the first 8 Read More …
Brigitte Gynther, SOA Watch Latin America Liaison On September 27, 2017, the preliminary hearing against four of those accused of murdering Berta Caceres was postponed for the third time because of the failure of the Read More …