Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet- A Live Chat with Nina Lakhani
Event Description: Join us as journalist Nina Lakhani reads from her powerful new book about the life and death of inspiring Lenca earth defender Berta Cáceres, followed by a conversation with Berta’s son Salvador Zúniga Cáceres, of COPINH, about courageous, precedent-setting efforts to achieve justice and change.
About the book: Nina Lakhani tracked Cáceres remarkable career, in which the defender doggedly pursued her work in the face of years of threats and while friends and colleagues in Honduras were exiled and killed defending basic rights. Lakhani herself endured intimidation and harassment as she investigated the murder. She was the only foreign journalist to attend the 2018 trial of Cáceres’s killers, where state security officials, employees of the dam company and hired hitmen were found guilty of murder. Many questions about who ordered and paid for the killing remain unanswered. Drawing on over a hundred interviews, confidential legal filings, and corporate documents unearthed after years of reporting in Honduras, Lakhani paints an intimate portrait of an extraordinary woman in a state beholden to corporate powers, organised crime, and the United States.
