Berta Cáceres

Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016 (The Executive Summary in English)) was a Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader of the Lenca people. 

She was co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015.

 Assassination 
On March 2, 2016, two armed intruders shot Cáceres to death in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, after years of threats against her life. She was 44 years old.

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Category:1973 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Environmentalists
Category:Honduran people
Category:Murders by firearm
Category:People murdered in North America