20/08/2020
AQUI in Español Given recent news that the judge overseeing the judicial process of David Castillo, the only DESA executive charged for the murder of Berta Cáceres, has been transferred from the case, the daughters and son of Berta Cáceres, together with the legal team and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), express the following:…
17/08/2020
Newsletter Causa Berta Cáceres - August 17th, 2020 (AQUI en español) The defense of David Castillo, conducted by Juan Sanchez Cantillano and Ritza Antunes, representatives of the interests of the Atala Zablah family, have consummated a delaying maneuver with the objective of releasing David Castillo due to the expiration of his pretrial detention. Ritza Antunes represented Army Major Mariano Díaz,…
04/08/2020
Report on the Cause of Berta Cáceres. 2 August 2020 (AQUI en español) David Castillo, the link to the intellectual authors of Berta Cáceres' assassination, was captured on March 2, 2018. His pretrial detention expires on September 2, 2020, after two and a half years in which the Honduran justice system has not carried out the corresponding trial. This delay…
02/08/2020
Mucho de lo que se ha escrito sobre Berta Cáceres, especialmente en el extranjero (con algunas notables excepciones), se ha centrado en sus identificaciones como indígena y ambientalista. Si bien ninguno de los dos es falso, esos dos hechos por sí solos pintan una imagen distorsionada y anémica de la militancia de Berta y la de COPINH. Y, si bien se…
15/06/2020
The Civil Council of Grassroots Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) . Declaration of Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Uprisings The Lenca indigenous people and the Honduran people in general have been victims of abuse by State “security” forces trying to stop us from organizing and having our voices recognized and listened to. For 11 years we have lived through…
14/05/2020
REQUEST TO THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE FOR A PROSECUTORIAL REQUIREMENT AGAINST DANIEL ATALA MIDENCE, ONE OF THE INTELECTUAL AUTHORS OF THE MURDER OF BERTA CÁCERES Last Monday, May 4, a request for a prosecutorial requirements against Daniel Atala Midence, Financial Manager of the company DESA, for the crimes of the murder and illict association was presented to the Public Prosecutor´s…
11/05/2020
A week ago, a formal request was made to the Public Prosecutor's Office for an injunction against Daniel Atala Midence for the crime of murder and illicit association, as part of the intellectual authorship of the murder of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores, General Coordinator and founding member of COPINH. The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras communicates…
23/04/2020
El COVID-19 COMO EXCUSA PARA LIBERAR A ASESINOS (HERE in English) El pasado 7 de Abril COPINH denunció que trabajadores de la familia Atala Zablah, Sergio Rodríguez Orellana y Douglas Bustillo, condenados a 30 años de prisión por el asesinato de Berta Cáceres, pudiesen ser puestos en libertad aprovechando la crisis por el Covid-19. Así también la posible excarcelación para…
07/12/2019
The struggle for justice for Berta continues. (AQUI en ESPAÑOL) On December 2, 45 months after the crime and one year after the trial ended, the judiciary issued a judgment against seven material perpetrators for the murder of Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and co-founder of COPINH and the attempt to murder against Gustavo Castro. Among those sentenced are workers of…
