HAVANA TIMES – In Honduras, prosecutors have presented evidence charging a former energy company executive with masterminding the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead in her home in March of 2016.
Cáceres’s assassination came as she led a campaign against a major hydroelectric dam being constructed on indigenous land.
At the time of her death, the company building the dam was led by Roberto David Castillo Mejía, a former military intelligence officer.
Prosecutors say Mejía provided logistics and resources to at least one of the seven men who were convicted in November of carrying out Cáceres’s assassination.
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