Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder
Summary
Friends of the Earth International expresses concern over the safety of Gustavo Castro Soto, a witness to the murder of Berta Cáceres, and criticizes a Honduran judge's decision to maintain an immigration alert preventing his return to Mexico.
Key insights
- Berta Cáceres, leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), was murdered by gunmen in her home on March 2nd after leading a campaign that forced the world's largest dam builder to withdraw from the Agua Zarca Dam project.
- Gustavo Castro Soto, director of Otros Mundos Mexico and a witness wounded in the attack on Cáceres, was prevented from returning to Mexico for an additional 30 days by Judge Victorina Flores of the First Court of Letters of La Esperanza, Intibucá.
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- APA
- admin (2016). Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/concerns-for-the-safety-of-the-witness-to-berta-caceress-murder/
- Chicago
- admin. Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder. Friends of the Earth International, 2016. https://www.foei.org/concerns-for-the-safety-of-the-witness-to-berta-caceress-murder/.
- Wikipedia
- {{cite press release |last1=admin |title=Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=5 March 2016 |url=https://www.foei.org/concerns-for-the-safety-of-the-witness-to-berta-caceress-murder/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}
- BibTeX
- @misc{admin2016concerns, author = {admin}, title = {{Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2016}, month = mar, url = {https://www.foei.org/concerns-for-the-safety-of-the-witness-to-berta-caceress-murder/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }
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