Person in history
Bertha Cáceres
Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (born 1973)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2016 · March 3
Their story
Who they were
Bertha Isabel Cáceres Flores was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for environmental activism, in 2015 for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque.
Early life
Early life Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was born in La Esperanza, Honduras [ 1 ] into the Lenca people , a predominant Indigenous group in southwestern Honduras. The youngest of 12, she grew up in the 1970s during a time of civil unrest and violence in Central America. Her mother Austra Bertha Flores Lopez was a role model of humanitarianism : She was a midwife , assisting in thousands of natural births in the Honduran countryside, [ 1 ]
Why this date
Bertha Cáceres appears on our March 3 calendar for 2016 as a death entry.
Sources
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March 3 2016.
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