Historias 99 - Nina Lakhani on the life, death, and afterlife of Berta Cáceres

Historias - the SECOLAS podcast · Jun 2, 2020 · 53m

Land and the control of it lay at the core of Latin American economic inequality, social unrest, and political violence. It animates the scholarship on the region. In such countries with large indigenous communities as Bolivia, Mexico, and Honduras, the systematic dispossession of land remains an unresolved and contentious issue as these communities seek restitution while simultaneously defending current holdings. In Honduras, the acclaimed indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was a central figure in the defense of land from so-called economic development and infrastructure projects, in…