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and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

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

Dam's Death Squads and an indigenous Indigenous Defenders' Battle for the Planet.

By Nina Lackani.

The first time Honduran indigenous leader Bertha Casares met the journalist Nina Lackany,

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 Erlanca 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 100 interviews, confidential legal filings, and corporate documents

unearthed after years of reporting in Honduras, Lackany 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 defender's battle for the planet.

By Nina Luckini.

Out now from Verso Books.

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