The Murder of an Activist - March 2 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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March 2nd: Berta Caceres Killed (2016) Fighting for what you believe in, and helping people who need it most, should not be something that puts a target on your back. On March 2nd 2016 an amazing activist was killed by the enemies she made in her fight for justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_C%C3%A1ceres, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50645215, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/02/berta-caceres-murder-sentencing, https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/many-murders-berta-c-ceres, https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-berta-c%C3%A1ceres, https://theintercept.com/2019/12/21/berta-caceres-murder-plot-honduras/, https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/21/in-honduras-a-journalist-explores-an-activists-murder/, https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/stories/they-murdered-my-mother-for-defending-the-environment-help-me-seek-justice/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	There were two more murders.
0:31.8	15 miles away.
0:32.7	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:36.1	We have a weird homicide.
0:38.9	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:42.3	Morning.
0:43.4	Cop of murder.
0:45.3	Fighting for what you believe in and helping people who need it the most should not be
0:49.9	something that puts a target on your back.
0:52.0	On March 2nd, 2016, an amazing activist was killed
0:56.3	by the enemies she made in her fight for justice. So if you like your coffee hot but your
1:02.2	bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
1:27.1	Bertha Isabel Casares Flores was born on March 4, 1971, to the indigenous Lanka people in La Esperanza, Honduras, and grew up in a time where her home country, and most of Central America, was experiencing civil unrest and great violence.
1:32.1	Despite what was going on around her, Bertha had an incredible role model at home,
1:35.7	who shaped every aspect of the woman she would turn out to be.
1:39.8	Her mother, Ostra Flores, was not only an accomplished midwife,
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