July 15th, 2013 is a critical day in the story of Berta Caceres and David Castile.

Here's what we know happened.

A security guard at the Awa Zarka Dam's work site shot and killed a protester from Copene,

the indigenous rights group led by Berta. If you're

David, the CEO of the company behind the dam, you know this is a crisis. The dam has already

attracted controversy. Depending on how the press reports it, this could make things much worse.

Here's what else we know.

That same day, David sends a text message to his colleagues at Dessa, his company.

He tells them, pay the reporter from HCH.

HCH is a Honduran cable news network. David instructs his colleagues to offer the reporter

2000 Limpiris, which is about $80 today. And those two bits of information, that someone

was killed and that David wanted to pay a reporter, are the only two facts in this instance

that investigators and David can seemingly agree on.

If you're the team investigating David,

this looks like a bribe,

an attempt to spin the incident and provide cover for the project. HCH didn't respond to a request for comments,

but David says his company did make that payment,

and that there was nothing wrong with it.

Generalists, local journalists,

do not have funds to be able to travel far away.

Normally, they don't have fuel to be able to go to remote places, even more so in the middle of the mountain.

David argues that the protesters,

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