Cultivators: Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores

Womanica

Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971-2016) was a Honduran environmental activist who spent decades leading various land and water struggles in western Honduras. In 1993 she helped found and coordinate the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, known by its Spanish acronym COPINH. In the late 2000s, Berta organized a lasting resistance to the construction of the Agua Zarca Dam on the Gualcarque River, whose construction violated the rights of indigenous peoples, and would have effectively cut them off from important resources. She was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize (the highest honor in the field) for her success in stopping the dam’s construction through grassroots movements.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Tooth Path,
0:05.3	I'm taking it back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinch O'Meyer.
0:11.5	She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
0:14.8	It turns out Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
0:20.0	I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.
0:24.4	John F. Kennedy.
0:26.3	Listen to Murder on the Toothpath with Soledad O'Brien on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:32.3	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.4	Hey, sis, it's Mandy Money from the Brown Ambition podcast. Are you wondering how am I going
0:43.1	to break for you from this paycheck to paycheck life? How do I get into the stock market?
0:47.2	Is that my 401K? Is it my HSA? What even are these things? We have y'all covered at Brown
0:53.6	Ambition. I'm your host, Mandy Money. I'm a
0:55.6	career and money expert. I help women start building generational wealth to get the dose of
1:00.4	empowerment, strategy, and community that only Brown Ambition can offer. Listen to Brown Ambition
1:05.6	on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:21.4	Hello, I'm Malia Agudelo, a production assistant at Wonder Media Network, and I'm so excited to be guest hosting this episode of Wamanica.
1:29.6	This month, we're talking about cultivators, women who nurtured, cross-pollinated, experimented, or went to great lengths to better understand and protect the natural world. Today, we're talking about an environmental
1:35.3	activist who dedicated her life to her community and protecting the land they depended on. She had a gift
1:41.0	for cultivating coalitions to oppose powerful and violent interests.
1:45.9	Let's talk about Bertha Isabel Caseres Flores.
1:57.0	Bertha was born in 1971 in western Honduras into the indigenous Lenka community.
2:03.6	Her mother was a midwife, local politician, and activist.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 14 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.