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One that you might like is, Who Killed Berta Casares?

Damns, Death Squad's, and an indigenous defenders battle for the planet by Nina Laconi.

The first time Honduran indigenous leader, Berta Casares, met the journalist Nina Luckinie,

Casares said, The army has an assassination list with my name at the top.

I want to live, but in this country there is total impunity.

When they want to kill me, they will do it.

In 2015, Casares won the Goldman Prize, the world's most prestigious environmental award

for leading a campaign to stop construction of an internationally funded

hydroelectric dam on a river sacred to her Lenka people. Less than one year later

she was dead. Many questions about who ordered and paid for the

killing remain unanswered. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews, confidential legal filings, and corporate documents unearthed after years of

reporting in Honduras. Luckany paints an intimate portrait of an extraordinary woman in a state beholden to corporate powers, organized

crime, and the United States.

Who killed Berta Casares?

Dams, death squads, and an indigenous defenders battle for the planet by Nina Luckany

Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The Republican Party uses minority rule to impose a right-wing agenda upon a majority

that opposes everything that they stand for.

Neither Bush nor Trump would have been president if we lived under a state that had the most basic features of a democracy.

Mitch McConnell would not be Senate Majority Leader.

John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch would not be on the Supreme Court.

Indeed, you would have no idea who those people were.

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