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BERTA SOY YO
Who assassinated Berta Caceres, and why?
With great emotion, Rights Action shares information about this film directed over the course of 9 years by Katia Lara and her team.
BERTA SOY YO (Spanish with English subtitles) provides insight into the life, vision and struggles of Berta Cáceres, assassinated the night of March 2, 2016, in La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras.
BERTA SOY YO is an important contribution to continue multiplying the life and word (multiplicando vida y la palabra) of Berta - her vision, dignity and leadership.
Since the military coup d'état (supported and 'legitimized' by the U.S. and Canada) on June 27, 2009, Honduras was brutally controlled by an ‘open-for-global-business’ regime dominated by the National Party and traditional economic-military elites, and led by narco-President Juan Orlando Hernandez, recently extradited to the U.S. for drug trafficking.
The intellectual authors of Berta's murder - and there are many amongst the economic/political/military elites of the Narco-Regime - never imagined the international reach of the anger provoked by this assassination ending the life of a land, human rights and environmental defender loved and respected by the Honduran people and by peoples across the Americas.
Berta's case continues in impunity today,, over 7 years later, despite the fact that she herself denounced those who plotted to kill her, despite the fact that there was a witness to the horror of that night: the Mexican human rights, land and environmental defender Gustavo Castro.
Seven years after the crime, this film by Katia Lara was released. Ten years ago, Katia arrived for the first time, camera in hand, at the Lenca community camp, organized to defend the Gualcarque River.
Berta Soy Yo exalts life, through the struggle of the Lenca and Garífuna peoples of Honduras, who continue to defend their territory, rights and culture against all forms of imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism.
The assassination, financed and planned by private companies and investors in collusion with public officials, forges the pattern of death. Pieces of an unpublished archives and unsuspected testimonies fit together. The story increases in complexity, seeking to answer the question: Who killed Berta, and why?
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Multiplying Berta's vision, dignity and leadership
Rights Action encourages folks to follow Berta Soy Yo's social media feeds, and share their information. Rights Action encourages you to promote the screening of the film in your communities and theaters.
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Take Action Against U.S. Interference With Reforms and Change in Honduras
The Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) released a report authored by Karen Spring (director of Honduras Now, co-coordinator of the HSN, previous Rights Action colleague) documenting U.S. pressures against reforms being made by the Honduran government as it attempts to recover from 12 years and 7 months of a U.S. and Canadian-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’, narco-dictatorship.
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To support land and environmental defenders, and human rights and justice struggles in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
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